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Aleppo Assault

Rebels on the back foot

US, UK boosts civilian aid

AFP, Aleppo
Fighting raged in a strategic district of Syria's commercial capital Aleppo yesterday, the third day of a rebel offensive to seize the city, with state media saying rebels have suffered big losses in their latest assault.
The United States and Britain, meanwhile, pledged more than another $55 million in funding for humanitarian aid and the civilian opposition.
The focal point of combat was Salaheddin, a rebel stronghold on the southwest side of the city where insurgents attacked an army position, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It also warned that the wooden-doored shops of the famous souk marketplace in central Aleppo, a popular tourist destination before Syria's violence erupted in March 2011, were set ablaze in the clashes between rebels and soldiers.
Elsewhere, the army stepped up operations on the Eastern Ghuta area of Damascus.
Damascus-based citizen journalist Matar Ismail said the "army is taking revenge against Damascus, and it is mainly the civilians who are paying the price.
On Wednesday, two car bombs struck an army headquarters in the heart of Damascus, andTajamo Ansar al-Islam was the first FSA group to claim responsibility for the operation.
Meanwhile, fighting raged in several districts of Aleppo, where rebels launched on Thursday an all-out campaign to capture the
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A total of 37 people were killed in violence across the strife-torn country, including 19 civilians, most of them in Damascus province, said the Observatory, adding that 18 soldiers were also killed in combat.
Assad's forces yesterday also shelled localities in the southern province of Daraa as well as in Deir Ezzor to the east.
The latest violence came a day after a total of 136 people were killed across Syria, according to the Observatory, among them 85 civilians, 20 rebels and 31 soldiers.
More than 30,000 people have died in 18 months of violence since the outbreak of a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
In New York, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled a total of $45 million (35 million euros) in new funding for humanitarian aid and to help Syria's civilian opposition.
Some $30 million would go towards aid, bumping up the total US funding for humanitarian relief to $130 million, with a further $15 million for the civilian opposition, she told a meeting of the Friends of Syria.
Washington has stuck by its refusal to provide arms and military support to the rebels, fearing it would further complicate the situation on the ground.
Hillary also attacked Iran's role in the conflict. "There is no longer any doubt that Iran will do whatever it takes to protect its proxy and crony in Damascus," she told the Friends of Syria meeting.
But in a speech to the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed Western powers for obstructing an international solution to the crisis.