Baladi News – Aleppo (Ahmad al-Ahmad)
Sources in the leadership of Jaysh al-Fatah (Army of Conquest) revealed that heavy losses were inflicted upon the Syrian regime forces and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard during the recent battles of Aleppo over the past few days, amid secrecy by the regime and its allies as regards their real losses to avoid the collapse of the morals of their forces in Aleppo.
According to the sources, the violent battles along the previous months on the front lines of Castello Road, Handarat, and al-Mallah, witnessed the death of hundreds of militants of the Syrian regime, Hezbollah, and Iran, including 350 affiliated with Tehran-Supported al-Quds Battalion alone, meanwhile more than 500 of the regime allies militants were documented dead during the battles of last week.
During the recent battles, sources inside the regime-held areas indicated that dozens of corpse were brought to hospitals in Aleppo, Hamah, and Lattakia, including over two hundred delivered to Hamah Military Hospital alone, whereas dozens corpses scattered in al-Hikma School and the surrounding hills, which the regime was not able to pick-up.
During the battle of the Artillery Academy that lasted two days, the regime forces were inflicted more than 150 casualties, including Iranian and Hezbollah militants and senior officers, such as a Major general Called Mahmoud Hassan from the special forces, according to military sources.
Iranian media confessed that an Iranian field commander as well as a Basij militant were killed during battles in Syria. The same sources indicated that Sadiq Mohammed Zada, a commander in the so-called Fatemiyoun Brigade, was killed in battles near Hamah in clashes against “terrorist and takfiri groups.”
Another Basij militant, called Mohammed Hassan Qasimi, was declared dead by Iranian media in defense of Sayyida Zaynab in Syria, which raises the number of Iranian military casualties to 295 since last October. Meanwhile, dozens of the Lebanese Hezbollah militants were killed during the battles last week, but Hezbollah media did not admit their death according to statements of Jaysh al-Fatah provided to Baladi News.
The regime media is attempting to impose a blackout on the actual losses of the regime in Aleppo by showing pictures of victims and claiming they are opposition fighters, but it was turned out that they belonged to the regime forces. Such a procedure, according to the rebels, aims at lifting the spirits of the regime forces and allies by at least achieving a media victory.