Fighting Spreads In Aleppo As Syrian Rebels Try To Expand On Strongholds And Repel Assad’s Two-Week Onslaught -- Daily Mail
* If the city falls to rebels it could become seat of new provisional government
* Mobile missile batteries said to be on the way to Aleppo from Turkey
* Fighting in city's centre could neutralise regime military's armoured units
* Iranian security chief describes Syria as part of an 'axis of resistance' that Tehran will never allow to be broken
Fighting in Aleppo has spread to new areas, activists have claimed, as rebels try to expand their hold inside Syria's largest city.
Despite intense bombardment from government air power and artillery, Aleppo's insurgents have now withstood two weeks of counterattacks by President Bashar Assad's troops and are clawing toward the city centre.
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