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VITAL supply convoys began to reach the Syrian city of Aleppo this weekend as fierce fighting continued in the province.
Four civilians — including a child — were killed in the city yesterday when a rebel-launched artillery rocket fell on a residential building in al-Neel street.
Three people were also injured by the rocket launched from the Bani Zeid district. Four more were injured on Saturday when rockets hit al-Ashrafiyeh district.
Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi said on Saturday that the government had been working to support Aleppo’s two million inhabitants since the Syrian Arab Army cleared the supply route to the city of rebel forces last week.
Hundreds of tankers carrying much-needed heating fuel for the cold Syrian winter, along with petrol, household gas and dozens of lorryloads of food have arrived since Thursday.
Fighting continued against Islamic State (Isis) in the east of Aleppo governorate and the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front in the south and west.
Syrian jets pounded Isis positions in Sheikh Ahmad south of the besieged Kuweires airbase, as the army and allied forces edged closer to breaking the two-year encirclement.
Nusra Front websites acknowledged the killing of one its leaders in Aleppo, Faisal Sharif, nicknamed Abu Omair al-Ansari, by army forces and Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas.
On Saturday army and Hezbollah units liberated the village of Kafr Haddad, just 15 miles away from the stronghold of Saraqib in Idlib province.
The army claimed that scores of rebels were killed in the weekend’s fighting.
Hezbollah and Iranian military advisers have been supporting the army and national defence forces militias in Aleppo, where they have liberated 100 square miles of territory in the past week.
Meanwhile, a conference in Damascus on Saturday called for wide participation of democratic forces in decision-making processes.
The Together to Damascus 1 forum saw participation from leaders of several parties, MPs, clan chiefs and civil organisations.
National Reconciliation Affairs Minister Ali Haidar stressed the need for participation by all components of Syrian society in national projects.
