Syria Update

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has said that its fighters have killed about 60 regime forces during fierce fighting in the south of Aleppo.
The FSA said on Tuesday that rebel fighters had also taken control of several areas in the city.
The Syrian regime was reportedly constantly shelling Joubar neighborhood in the capital Damascus and regime forces were said to be shelling neighborhoods like Berza, Al-Yarmouk camp, Qaboun and Al- Tadmun, using heavy artillery.

Activists says there is intensive shelling on Al-Maliha, Babila, Al-Zabadani, Daraya and Madamiyat Al Sham in the outskirts of Damascus. (Al-Jazeera)

Activists say a group linked to al-Qaeda has warned civilians not to use a road linking central Syria with the northern province of Aleppo,declaring it a military zone.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Centre said on Tuesday that Jabhat al-Nusra, or the al-Nusra Front, had threatened to target any vehicle using the road starting from Wednesday. A copy of the warning was posted online.
Activists have reported heavy fighting near the road, which links the central province of Hama with the embattled city of Aleppo.
The regime uses the route to ferry supplies to its forces in the north because the rebels already have severed the main north-south highway that connects Damascus with Aleppo. (AP)

Four Syrians, including an eight-year-old girl, have been brought to a hospital in Israel after they were wounded by fighting in the war-torn country, a medical source has said.
"Yesterday night an injured eight-year-old girl and her 48-year-old mother were treated for fractures to their arms and legs from shrapnel," said a spokesman for Ziv hospital, north of the Sea of Galilee, on Tuesday.
"Another Syrian adult in his 20s arrived an hour ago... with a severe head  injury and was treated in the trauma unit."
The wounded were brought to the hospital by the Israeli army after being allowed across the ceasefire line with Syria, the spokesman said. (AFP)