Syrian rebels secure north-south corridor
Syrian rebels attacked a military airport in the country' north in a push to cut off the country's biggest city Aleppo from the capital Damascus, and secure a strategic north-south corridor.
Despite ragged command-and-control and few heavy weapons, the rebels have gained control over the rural north and border crossings to Turkey after 19 months of conflict and now seek to isolate Aleppo from Assad's power fulcrum in Damascus.
Concentrated attacks target air bases at Taftanaz
This is the start of one of their more concentrated attacks on Syrian military power, according to rebels.
Syrian rebels 'attack key airbase'
Syrian rebels launched a dawn offensive to take control of a key airbase in the country's north, activists have said.