BEIRUT: At least 150 Syrian regime forces died in fighting with rebels for the control of Khan Al Assal, a key town in the northern Aleppo province, a monitoring group said yesterday.
More than 50 of those killed were executed by rebels after the fall of Khan Al Assal on Monday, while the rest died fighting for the regime’s last bastion in the west of Aleppo province, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Thirty of those killed in both the executions and fighting were officers, the Observatory said. Rebels had for months tried to take Khan Al Assal, a strategically located town in the west of Aleppo province.AFP
