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Reports: Regime Threatening Last Main Route to Insurgents in Aleppo
Residents and activists said the Syrian army is threatening to cut the last main supply route to insurgents in Aleppo.
Regime forces fought insurgents near Handarat on the northern edge of Syria’s main city, divided since July 2012, on Friday.
“The road is completely closed and the regime has erected barriers,” said opposition activist Muhammad Bidour. “Our comrades were there and had to take another very long road which takes hours.”
Bidour said clashes were ongoing in the villages of Sifat and Dowir al-Zeitoun, around eight kilometres (5 miles) north of Aleppo.
Foreign Ministry Calls on UN To Condemn Double Bombing in Homs
The Foreign Ministry has called on the UN to condemn Wednesday’s double bombing near a school in Homs, which killed 33 people and wounded 102.
The Ministry sent identical letters to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the hHead of the UN Security Council: “All the indications that have been compiled so far confirm that the masterminds and perpetrators of this crime are affiliated to terrorist organizations that some Western countries and their pawns in the region like to call ‘moderate opposition’.”
No one has claimed responsibility for the car bomb, followed by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives.
Opposition activists have questioned the regime’s narrative that insurgents are the culprits. They have noted that the car carrying the bomb had Syrian military plates and passed through checkpoints before it was parked near the school.
State news agency SANA headlined the funeral processions for some of the children who died in the blasts. It did not mention protests calling for the resignation of Homs Governor Talal al-Barazi.