ALEPPO, Syria
At least 30 people were killed in clashes between Assad regime troops and armed opposition groups in Syria's Aleppo, according to an eyewitness.
Ahmad Ubayd told The Anadolu Agency clashes took place in the Sheikh Najjar industrial zone in Northern Aleppo.
He said the opposition took control of 10 regime forces buildings and destroyed several regime vehicles.
Meanwhile, a Syrian army helicopter dropped two barrel bombs on the Lebanese town of Arsal near the Syrian border.
At least three people were killed and two others wounded in the attack, all from the same family, according to The Anadolu Agency's correspondent.
Opposition forces in March 2011 began protests to topple President Bashar Al-Assad, a struggle that turned into a civil war in July of that year after regime forces violently suppressed protests.
More than 190,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began, according to UN figures published last August.
Amnesty International said more than 10 million people have been forced out of their homes; at least four million of them have become refugees, mostly in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.
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