Syria Army Seizes New Terrorist-held District in Eastern Aleppo

Syrian troops and allied forces advanced overnight seizing Aleppo’s Tariq al-Bab neighborhood from terrorists in the context of an offensive to regain all of the city, a monitor said on Saturday.

The capture of the neighborhood means the government has now retaken around 60 percent of the east of the city, which the rebels overran in mid-2012, the UK-based Syrian Opposing Observatory said.