Syrian army seizes only road into rebel-held Aleppo

By Dominic Evans and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's army and allied militia fighters seized the only road into the rebel-held part of Aleppo on Sunday, tightening a siege around opposition areas of the northern city, which President Bashar al-Assad has pledged to recapture. Aleppo has been a major battlefield of Syria's civil war since rebels swept into it in the summer of 2012, and an opposition defeat there would mark their biggest setback in five years of conflict. Aroun