President Bashar al-Assad’s forces seized a wide swath of rebel territory in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, spurring the flight of tens of thousands of civilians amid intense fighting that threatens the collapse of the opposition’s last major urban stronghold.
Activists and rebel leaders said pro-Assad forces on Monday recaptured the northern districts of the city, which has been divided between opposition forces on the east and Assad forces on the west since the rebels first stormed Syria’s second city in 2012.
The government advance means that over the course of a few days, rebels have lost about a third of their territory in Aleppo, which has become the most crucial — and bloodiest — battleground of Syria’s five-year civil war.
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