Fighting for Aleppo base kills 15 Syria militia: NGO

Fighting for a key military base outside Syria's main northern city of Aleppo killed at least 15 pro-government militiamen on Thursday, a monitoring group said. "Fifteen members of the National Defence Forces were killed in fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Al-Nusra Front and Islamist groups in the east of Aleppo province and near Base 80," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The army recaptured Base 80, which had provided the garrison for Aleppo's military and civilian airports, at the weekend after months of fighting. It was one of a series of setbacks for the rebels in recent weeks around the big cities of Aleppo and Damascus.

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