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A Syrian rebel with a bandaged eye walks past closed shops in the Bab Nasr district of Aleppo on Aug. 14.
Fresh fighting erupted in Aleppo, Syria, monitors said, as a pro-government daily warned the capture of a key rebel district was just a "first step" in the retaking of all opposition areas.
Core loyalist troops, drawn mostly from Assad's minority Alawite sect, are locked primarily into what is shaping up to be a protracted battle for Aleppo, as well as in shoring up an uncertain grip over the capital Damascus.
In the process, Assad faces the specter of Deir al-Zor province slipping out of his orbit and with it Syria's 200,000 barrel-a-day oil output, military experts and diplomats say.
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A Syrian rebel holds his rifle in the Bab Nasr district of Aleppo on Aug. 14.
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A shell blast damaged a hospital room in the Shaar district of the northern city of Aleppo on Aug. 14.
Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his sniper rifle from a house in Aleppo on Aug. 14.
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