According to reports coming from Syria, the army attacked a
rebel-held school in Aleppo’s Salahuddin district, which was being used as a
command center, on Wednesday and inflicted heavy losses on anti-Damascus armed
groups.
Press TV's correspondent in Syria
says calm has returned to Aleppo and Syrian forces have cleared most areas of
the city of armed gangs although clashes are still continuing on the outskirts.
The terrorist Free Syrian Army has vowed to step
up its attack in Aleppo by targeting the city's security centers.
Meanwhile, a video has been circulated online
showing the execution by rebel gunmen in Aleppo of four supporters of President
Assad's government.
Armed groups fighting against the Syrian
government have been operating in Aleppo since July 20 after they were defeated
in the capital, Damascus, and were forced to flee.
The Syrian government says the
rebels are committing "horrific crimes” against civilians in Aleppo and
Damascus.
In two letters addressed to the head of the
United Nations Security Council and the UN chief, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid
al-Muallem said on Tuesday that the rebels, who are backed and funded by Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, are using civilians in Aleppo as human shields and
killing anyone who does not support their crimes.
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 on Syrian
President Bashar al-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.
