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July 31, 2012

Syria: Clashes Continue in Aleppo; Gov’t Accused of Targeting Monitors 
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Syrian government troops and rebel forces are engaged in intense
fighting as the battle for Aleppo continues for a fourth day. Both sides
have offered conflicting accounts of their advances in the city, with
the Syrian military claiming to have re-taken several rebel-held areas.
Residents have reported intense overnight shelling in a number of
neighborhoods targeted by the regime of Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad. Government forces, meanwhile, are again being accused of
targeting international monitors after a convoy carrying the head of the
U.N. observer mission was attacked on Monday. At the United Nations,
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the violence.

Ban Ki-moon: "The government is adding to its brutal crackdown by
attacking heavily populated areas with fighter aircraft and helicopters.
The armed opposition groups have also stepped up their attacks. Each
day, as the violence spirals, more Syrians are killed, injured and
tortured or forced to flee their homes or their country."

 

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