Syrian rebels target supply lines in northThere is no end in sight in Syria A group has warned civilians to stay off a road linking central Syria with the northern province of Aleppo, declaring it a military zone, as the rebels try to cut one of the regime’s main routes for supplying its forces in the north, activists said Tuesday. The warning comes a day after rebels went on the offensive in Syria’s north, seizing three villages in the province where a military stalemate has been in place since last summer. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Centre said that Jabhat al-Nusra, or the Nusra Front, is threatening to target any vehicle using the road starting Wednesday. A copy of the warning was posted online. The regime uses the route to ferry supplies to its forces in the north because the rebels already have severed the main north-south highway that connects Damascus with the embattled city of Aleppo, where regime forces have battled rebels in vicious street fighting for a year. The desert road was paved and opened by regime forces earlier this year. The statement, which was stamped with the Nusra Front emblem, said the Syrian military ‘opened this road to civilian cars and trucks when in fact it is a military road.’ ‘There are daily clashes and military operations there. Holy warriors have booby-trapped the road,’ it said, instructing civilians not to use the road and claiming that the army will be using them as ‘human shields to cover its movements.’ Britain is convening an ‘informal’ meeting of the 15-nation council, including Russia and China, to meet the opponents of president Bashar al-Assad, Britain’s UN ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said. We are sad dictator Asad is still there because of Russian, Chinese and Iranian connivance.The change in Egypt has also affected the movement for democratic state in Syria.West had been playing a dubious role, not fully backing the freedom movement fully in proper time.But the time will settle the issue in favor of people though cost will be heavy.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:50:12 +0000
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