BEIRUT -- Syrian rebels pushed into a strategic neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo after days of heavy clashes, seizing control of at least part of the hilltop district and killing a pro-government Sunni Muslim cleric captured in the fighting, activists and state media said Saturday.
While there were conflicting reports about the scale of the rebel advance into the Sheik Maqsoud neighborhood, the gains marked the biggest shift in the front lines in the embattled city of Aleppo in months. The city, Syria's largest and a former commercial hub, has been a key battleground in the country's civil war since rebels launched an offensive on it in July, seizing several districts before the fighting largely settled into a bloody stalemate.
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