Abdolrahman Mansour, the field commander of al-Safavah battalion affiliated to the Free Syrian Army, was killed in a battle with the Syrian soldiers in Aleppo.

Reports said earlier today that artillery and missile units of the Syrian Army opened heavy fire at the militant groups' strongholds in Northern Aleppo, leaving scores of the terrorists dead or wounded.

"The militants' concentration centers and gatherings in al-Lairamoun and Castillo region came under the heavy shelling of the Syrian artillery and missile units, which not only inflicted a heavy death toll on the militants but caused their commanders to call for urgent dispatch of more fresh forces and medical back up," the sources said.

Battlefield sources in Syria earlier today refuted the terrorists' claims about advancing in Northern Aleppo, and underlined the government forces' full control over the newly-liberated territories in the province, FNA reported.

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