Ziad Al-Halabi, Baladi News, Aleppo Countryside
Rebel's factions seized control of 3 villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo on Sunday following violent clashes with "ISIS" concurrently with the bombardment by the International coalition warplanes.
ISIS has launched a fierce attack on the rebel's front lines in Ghazal village which was repelled by the rebels who in return launched a strong counterattack causing violent clashes between them which forced ISIS to withdraw from the villages of Yani Yaban, Bayan, Al-Kamalia and Ghazal leading the rebels to advance into them. Combing operations are still underway till the moment of writing this report.
On the other hand, rebels have confronted an infiltration operation by ISIS from the southern front of the city of Mare', where violent clashes took place between the two parties which led to the death of a number of ISIS members, wounding others and the withdrawal of the survivals towards the villages they came from.
In the same context, International coalition air force launched dozens of airstrikes on the villages of Akhtarin, Al-Masoudia, Dowibik, and Showarien in the northern countryside of Aleppo which are under the control of ISIS.
It should be noted that clashes are still underway between ISIS and the rebels in the northern countryside of Aleppo in an attempt to recover what they had lost in the past days before the rebels in conjunction with the series of withdrawals it's practicing in the eastern countryside of Aleppo before Syrian Democratic forces militias.