Syria cuts only road for terrorists to Aleppo

The Syrian army has cut the only way into terrorist-held parts of Aleppo, severing the militants' only lifeline from the city to the outside world.

According to Press TV, the capture of the Castello Road on Thursday came in the wake of recent advances by the Syrian army in the al-Mallah Farms area northwest of Aleppo.

The army had been attempting to seize Mallah for more than two years as it runs adjacent to the Castello Road, the last route militants can use to access districts they control in the second Syrian city.

The capture of Mallah Farms and Castello Road enables Syrian forces to besiege militant-held neighborhoods of Aleppo and puts them within the firing range of the army.

Two foreign-backed militant groups and a London-based observatory confirmed the Syrian army advances on Thursday in interviews with the Reuters news agency.

"Currently nobody can get in or out of Aleppo," the agency quoted Zakaria Malahifji of Aleppo-based terrorist group Fastaqim as saying.

A unilateral 72-hour truce declared by the Syrian government on Wednesday does not include militants in Aleppo, mostly belonging to al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and Daesh terrorists.

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