Battle for Aleppo “at its end”, says Syrian army

The Syrian army is on the verge of declaring victory in the battle for control of Aleppo after taking control of a number of rebel districts. – Photo AAP

ALEPPO – The army has recaptured much of Syria’s second city in recent weeks and earlier on Monday a UK-monitoring group opposed to the regime said the rebels had withdrawn from the last six neighbourhoods they held.

“We are in the final moments before declaring the victory of the Arab Syrian army in the battle of East Aleppo,” a Syrian military source reportedly told Reuters.

“We could announce this any moment.”

Syrian state TV said government forces and their allies now controlled 99% of Aleppo’s neighbourhoods previously held by the rebels.

A Reuters journalist based in the government-held part of the city said overnight bombardment of the east had been the most intense for days.

And a Syrian rebel spokesman admitted opposition fighters were retreating, saying the collapse of the enclave was “terrifying”.

Monther Etaky, an Aleppo resident, told Sky News: “The situation right now in Aleppo city is like hell.”

He said thousands of people were on the streets looking for shelter and Syrian regime attacks had destroyed the main store for flour.

“The city is starving, there is no bread in the besieged area, and there is one hospital left.

Syria’s chief opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said that defeat in Aleppo would not weaken the resolve of Mr Assad’s opponents.

“If Assad and his allies think that a military advance in certain quarters of Aleppo will signify that we will make concessions, then (I say) that will not happen,” he said.

Between 10,000 and 13,000 civilians have fled from eastern Aleppo in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number to have escaped the fighting there to an estimated 130,000, the Observatory and other reports said.

The Russian defence ministry said 100,000 civilians are left in eastern Aleppo.

Amid reports that hundreds of men fleeing the east of the city have gone missing, pictures have emerged that appeared to show men from the former rebel-held areas being conscripted into the Syrian army. – News Sky

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