Syrian insurgents breach Aleppo after detonating two car bombs, monitoring group and reports say
BEIRUT After setting off two vehicle bombings on Friday, Islamist rebels broke into districts in Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city, and engaged in combat with government military troops. The Associated Press and a prominent war monitoring organization both covered the episode, which has brought renewed worldwide attention to a nation that has been embroiled in a civil conflict that has been smoldering for more than ten years.
The monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, reported that the regime troops and the insurgents engaged in intense combat. Since rebels began a surprise onslaught on Wednesday and took control of towns and villages as they moved toward Aleppo, the combat has significantly escalated.
Since 2016, when they were forced from Aleppo's eastern suburbs d...