Monitor: Syrian Army Makes Advances North of Aleppo

The Syrian army, aided by Lebanese Hezbollah militants, captured several villages near Aleppo in an attempt to encircle rebel fighters and cut off their supply routes, a monitor said Tuesday. In their second major offensive in a week, government troops were able to cut off a highway used by rebels as a supply route from Aleppo, in the country’s north, to the Turkish border, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory, which tracks the Syrian conflict...

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