Syrian aircraft and artillery pound Aleppo

Syrian artillery, planes and a helicopter gunship pounded rebel positions in Aleppo as President Bashar al-Assad's forces tried to break through opposition fighters' frontline in Syria's largest city.
Clashes were also reported on Saturday between government forces and rebels around Aleppo's television and radio station.

"It was the most violent shelling of Salaheddin since the outbreak of fighting in Aleppo" on July 20, said the Free Syrian Army's military chief, Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Oqaidi.

"It is not the first time the army has tried to storm Salaheddin," al-Oqaidi said.
Syrian television said a large number of "terrorists", the term it uses for the rebels, were killed and wounded after they tried to storm the television and radio station in Aleppo.

Al Jazeera's Ahmed Zeidan, reporting from Aleppo, said the opposition fighters were in conrol of the city's old district

Al Jazeera's Ahmed Zeidan, reporting from Aleppo, said: "There has been heavy bombardment in different neighbourhoods in Aleppo: in Shaar, in Bab al-Nayrab and al-Sakhour. We have no information on casualties.

"We have witnessed fighter [jets] bombing heavily in these neighbourhoods."

He said the violence followed the capture by the Free Syrian Army of different sections in Old Aleppo on Saturday.