Syria Rebels Storm Military Base to Break Aleppo Siege

Some 250,000 civilians live under siege in Aleppo’s rebel-held areas since government forces cut them off in July. Also on Friday, the UN said it had for the first time in weeks delivered aid to thousands of Syrian refugees stranded on the border with Jordan.

A group of relief agencies said they had completed delivery of a month’s worth of food and hygiene supplies.

More than 75,000 people had been without aid since June when Jordan sealed the border after a deadly attack there by so-called Islamic State.

A coalition of Syrian Islamist rebel groups has said it stormed an artillery base in the strategic city of Aleppo to try to end a government siege.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said part of the base had been taken.

But the Syrian army said it had repelled the assault, inflicting heavy casualties on the rebels.