Nusra Front militants attacked the positions of the Kurdish militia in the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood of the Syrian Aleppo city on Saturday, a spokesman for the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation at the Hmeimim airbase said.
"After an intense artillery preparation fire, Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham armed groups attacked the positions of Kurdish militia and volunteers from local residents in the neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsood in northern Aleppo," Sputnik cited the spokesman as saying.
The spokesman added that over 2000 militants from various terrorist groups and units of so-called moderate opposition were stationed in Sheikh Maqsood vicinity.
He stressed that the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Air Force were not carrying out strikes against the positions of moderate opposition.
