Over the last 5 days, the Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) has sustained substantially high losses during their siege of the villages of Al-Zahra and Nubl. According to a military source, a total of 179 dead militants from the Al-Nusra Front and Jaysh Al-Mujahiddeen have been counted since Monday. Among these casualties were many foreigners and field commanders, including the leader of the Al-Nusra Front operation at Nubl, “Abu Khataab Al-‘Uzbeki” – he was identified by a captured militant.

Earlier today, the Al-Nusra Front attempted to breakthrough Hezbollah and National Defense Forces (NDF) frontlines at the Associations Quarter in northeast Nubl; however, they were repelled by heavy artillery and the persistent aerial bombardment from the Syrian Arab Air Force’s (SAAF) hind helicopters. The people of Nubl and Al-Zahra have relied on these same helicopters to airdrop supplies due to the villages’ isolation from Syrian Government supply lines.

Identified militants killed yesterday at Al-Zahra and Nubl:

1. Abu Khataab Al-‘Uzbeki

2. Bashaar Abu Jameel

3. Mustafa Makees

4. ‘Abdel-‘Aziz Al-‘Abeed

5. Mohammad Ahmad Khaled

6. Tariq Jama’a ‘Uthman

7. ‘Abdel-Kareem Haajou

8. Moussa Al-Ameen

9. Majd Hameedo

Militants killed in other areas of Aleppo:

Al-Sabeehiyyeh:

1. Maxim Abu Hassan

2. Abu Hathim Al-Ghawi

3. Saleh Al-Abbaasi

4. Abu ‘Alaa Al-Sheeshaani (Chechen)

Bustan Al-Basha:

1. ‘Abdel-Rahman ‘Abdel Rahman (Harakat Hazzam)

2. NajeebAl-Badawi (Harakat Hazzam)

3. Mohammad Deeb ‘Akoush (Harakat Hazzam)

4. Ahmad Mohammad Yaqati (Harakat Hazzam)

5. Saabir Ayyoub Hawa (Liwaa Al-Sultaan Muraad)