Syrian army seizes rebel-held town in Aleppo province

The advance came a day after the Syrian army backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, Iranian troops and Russian Federation air raids took the nearby town of Al Hader, effectively bringing government forces in control of most of the southern Aleppo countryside.

Members of the Syrian Army celebrate reclaiming the Kweires airbase earlier this week, shortly before recapturing Al-Hader, also in Aleppo.

The Britain-based monitoring group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that an advance party of troops had reached the air base and “broken the siege”.

The Syrian Army’s successful operation to return the Kweiris military airbase was an astonishing victory for the Syrian government, al-Tamimi explained.

Al-Hadher was al-Nusra’s main stronghold in Aleppo and its collapse can leave a domino effect on other Southwestern parts of the Northern province in Syria and lead to expelling the terrorists from them.

The military scheme that so far has proved successful goes as follows: first, Russian airstrikes bomb ISIL-controlled positions destroying their command centers, artillery, tanks, mortar positions and other heavy weaponry, then the Syrian Army and its allies carry out ground offensives, clearing areas of terrorists.

“Fighting is ongoing inside Al Eis”.

Neither representatives of the Syrian regime nor opposition groups are expected to attend Saturday’s talks, the second after a round of discussions in Vienna on October 30.

A third working group, focusing on humanitarian questions, is to begin gathering on Friday, the source said.

Moscow has put forward a peace proposal for the talks, which calls for elections after an 18-month constitutional reform process, but Western officials have dismissed the plan as it does not ensure that Assad will be removed from power.

Army units, in cooperation with popular defense groups, established control over al-Karoura Mount and Talat Hassouna in the countryside of Lattakia and Hama, killing scores of non-Syrian terrorists and destroying their weaponry and munitions, a military source affirmed.