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Insurgents Advance from Aleppo, Assad Vows Defeat

On Saturday, thousands of Syrian insurgents captured most of Aleppo, the country’s largest city, establishing positions and taking control of its airport before advancing into nearby northern Hama province. Fighters and activists reported that government troops offered little resistance to the insurgents’ rapid offensive. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group, confirmed that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the …

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