Syria:60% of East Aleppo under Syrian Control

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Syrian forces retook another district in the east of the city of Aleppo, now exerting control over 60 percent of the city's militant-held eastern part, according to a monitoring group.

Joined by allied fighters, the Syrian military seized Aleppo's Tariq al-Bab neighborhood from the militants, the UK-based so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday.

The advance also restored control on a road leading from Aleppo's government-held western neighborhoods to the city's airport, which is also under government control.

Foreign-backed militants amassed in the city's eastern side in 2012. The government has been controlling its west and fighting to retake the east.

The official Syrian Arab News Agency SANA said the military had also wrested back control over the Karam Al-Qaterji, Jazmati, and Halwaniyah neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo. An unspecified number of the militants were killed in the operations.

The government's advances took by surprise many of the foreign states that have been channeling financial and military support to the militants since the onset of the foreign-backed militancy in Syria in 2011.

Amid the victories, some countries, including France, have called for the implementation of a ceasefire in Aleppo, citing a need for secure corridors for the transfer of humanitarian assistance to the city.

On Wednesday, Russia warned that the issue of aid delivery in Syria was becoming highly politicized as most UN humanitarian aid was going to the areas occupied by foreign-backed militants.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said only one percent of the UN aid supplies was being directed to the western city of Deir ez-Zour, where at least 200,000 people trapped by the Takfiri Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] terrorist group remain in desperate need of help.

Also on Saturday, a unit grouping army forces and its allies destroyed the positions of al-Nusra, in the suburbs of the city of al-Rastan in the southwestern Syria Dara'a Province.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team