Syria

Dozens of Syrian insurgents killed in Aleppo

Syrian government troops have killed dozens of foreign-backed insurgents in an assault on a compound in the flashpoint city of Aleppo as heavy fighting continues between the two sides, Press TV reports.

The Syrian Army conducted the operation in the city’s al-Bab district on Friday.

Earlier in the day, at least four civilians, including two children, were killed and 10 others injured in a mortar attack carried out by insurgents targeting the al-Nairab Palestinian refugee camp, 13 kilometers east of the city.

Meanwhile, on the same day, the United States announced that it would allocate an additional $45 million to foreign-backed armed groups fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Damascus says outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists are the driving factor behind the unrest and deadly violence while the opposition accuses the security forces of being behind the killings.

Western states have been calling for Assad to step down. However, Russia and China are strongly opposed to the Western drive to oust Assad.

The Syrian government says that the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the armed militants are foreign nationals, mostly from Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan.

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