Syrian government forces and their allies again laid siege to rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Sunday, while Turkish-backed fighters drove Islamic State from all the areas along its border, in two significant but separate developments in the multi-sided conflict. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wants to fully recapture divided Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the war. The Turkish-backed advance denied Islamic State its main route to the outside world, through which it has moved fighters and weapons. Fighting around Aleppo has recently cut supplies, power and water to nearly 2 million people in both government- and rebel-held areas. In return, the United States would coordinate with Russia in fighting against al Qaeda, it said, without elaborating.

Source: Thanhnien News September 04, 2016 18:11 UTC