Syrian army in control of 60% of Aleppo city

The Syrian army has taken control of more than 60 percent of the Aleppo city in the Northern parts of the country, and it is advancing further to capture more areas, reports said. The army units are only a few kilometers away from the Aleppo Central Prison that has been besieged by the Takfiri and Salafi groups for the last several months, FNA dispatches said. Also in the past 24 hours, the Syrian Kurds Popular Committees foiled an attack by militant groups who were trying to control the city of Ras Al-Ain in Hasaka province in Northeastern Syria. Tens of terrorists have been killed and dozens more injured in fierce clashes in the same area. Elsewhere, the Syrian army took control of the most strategic hill adjacent to Yabroud city in Damascus countryside. Meantime, the army units killed tens of terrorists, including three militant commanders, in Idlib countryside in Northwestern Syria. Ala’a Abu Moata, commander of Dara Al-Haq, Ahmad Abu Sham, commander of Dara Al-Fatehin and Ra’afat Al-Qassem nicknamed Abu Jarrah, ringleader of Dara Al-Dalab have been killed in Khan Shoyoukh town in Idlib countryside. Also, new mass graves have been found in the areas controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in different parts of Idlib and Aleppo provinces. A mass grave of civilians was found in Bersaya mountainous area in Northern parts of Aleppo. Two other similar mass graves have been found in Al-Danaa in Idlib countryside.   Elsewhere, the Syrian troops killed 20 armed rebels in a new ambush in the Eastern countryside of Damascus, just a couple of days after killing more than 175 others in the same area. Based on "precise intelligence information," a unit of the Syrian army killed more than 20 "terrorists" and injured many others in the ambush, while the armed rebels were sneaking on a sub-road between the Eastern al-Ghouta countryside and the rugged al-Qalamoun region, North of Damascus.