60 people fall in Aleppo battles

At least 60 people were killed as a result of the raging battles between the Syrian government forces and the opposition groups in the northern governorate of Aleppo on Tuesday.
The deceased include 39 opposition fighters and a media activist as well as 20 soldiers and pro-regime militiamen, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported.
The clashes, which resulted from attacks by the regular troops and militia loyal to the regime on Bashkon, Ratyan and Hardatnin villages in the northern rural outskirts of Aleppo by the regular troops, led to mass exodus from the areas.
The attackers include the local National Defense Force (NDF), the Palestinian Liwa Al-Quds and the Lebanese Hezbollah militants as well as Iranian and Afghan militiamen, according to the SOHR report.
In a related development, fierce battles erupted between the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), on one hand, and the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the Northern Sun Battalion and Al-Raqqah's revolutionaries, on the other, on the highway between Aleppo and the northeastern city of Al-Hasakah.
Source: KUNA