WHY LIBERATED #KhanAlAsal is STRATEGIC:
#Syria “rebels move to cut Regime supply lines in the North”: A rebel 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 #AleppoMediaCenter 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.”
If the rebels succeed in cutting the road, it will be a major blow to the regime, making it more difficult to bring in military reinforcements as well as other supplies to Aleppo province, most of which is under rebel control.
On Monday, rebels captured three villages southwest of the provincial capital of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and former commercial centre. The villages are close to the road the Nusra Front is trying to cut, and include the strategic village of #KhanAlAssal.
Located just west of Aleppo, Khan al-Assal has been a major front in the fight for the city itself. In March, chemical weapons were allegedly used in the village, killing more than 30 people. The Syrian government and the rebels blame each other for the attack.”
What the capture of Khan al-Asal means
With the capture of Khan al-Asal, activists now claim that the rebels have “almost complete control over the suburbs” surrounding Aleppo and a majority of the city itself. Also by capturing this district resistance forces are now more close to very important locations such as Artillery School and Military Academy, and Research Center. Especially military Academy is said to be the command center of regime forces in Aleppo.
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