
Insurgents breach Syrian city of Aleppo in shock offensive
BEIRUT — Insurgents breached Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, after blowing up two car bombs Friday and clashed with government forces on the city’s western edge, according to a Syria war monitor and fighters. Residents were fleeing neighborhoods on the city’s edge because of missiles and gunfire, according to witnesses in Aleppo. The insurgents’ advance on Aleppo…