Fighting has intensified in Syria’s largest city as a new international peace envoy is set to arrive. The fighting is taking place near government-help Aleppo International Airport. Click below to read more.
Activists are reporting heavy fighting in Syria’s largest city as battles intensify ahead of a visit by the new international peace envoy.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees say the fighting Wednesday was mostly near the government-held Aleppo International Airport.
Aleppo-based activist Mohammed al-Hassan says the airport, which includes a military base, is widely used by the regime to bomb rebel-held areas in Aleppo.
Diplomatic efforts have so far failed to stop the bloodshed in Syria, but the new U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi plans to travel to the country this week in a bid to revive them.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Brahimi will sit down with President Bashar Assad during an upcoming visit, although the date has not been announced.
