While insurgent factions and ISIS are heavily embroiled in warfare back and forth in northern Aleppo, the Syrian Government and Russia have announced they will initiate a huge operation which aims to firstly encircle rebel-held districts inside Aleppo city and eventually recapture them, thus fully liberating Syria’s largest city.
Recently, Major General Suheil al-Hassan (also called ‘The Tiger’) was deployed to northern Aleppo.
According to al-Masdar intel, he has been tasked to strike south of Handarat and reach the friendly Kurdish district of Sheikh Maqsood and other government-held suburbs of the city.
If the prominent Syrian General carries out this manuever successfully, rebels inside Aleppo city will be completely blocked from receiving supplies from either Turkey or Idlib.