Syrian state news agency SANA says that the rebels have not broken the siege of the city's eastern neighborhoods. Crowds celebrate as siege brokenAn alliance of rebel factions was able to break the government siege Saturday, according to a statement by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, with militants breaking through government lines to connect with fighters in the eastern part of the city, the observatory said. The agency reports that government troops had inflicted "heavy losses" on rebel groups in the fighting raging in the south and southwest of the city. Story highlights Sources: Corridor is too dangerous for aid to reach rebel enclaveSyrian state media agency denies the siege has been broken(CNN) Rebel fighters in Syria have broken a government siege of the crucial northern city of Aleppo by opening a corridor between opposition-held territory in the east and to the west of the city, according to a monitoring group, rebel groups and humanitarian sources. But little has changed for the besieged residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo neighborhoods, who have been enduring acute shortages of food and medicine, as the fighting remains too fierce for aid to be delivered, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and humanitarian workers operating in the area say.

Source: CNN August 07, 2016 16:52 UTC