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Battles rage between Syrian forces, rebels in Aleppo

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    Leland Vittert reports from Jerusalem

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Well a new report just out -- that the Obama administration.

Is preparing new sanctions against the regime of Syrian president Bashar -- -- side.

This -- Syrian forces pounded the northern city of the left -- Firing on the rebels with fighter jets helicopters and tanks despite being outgunned though the opposition is holding on.

-- veteran who live in our Middle East bureau in Jerusalem -- what is the latest on the ground.

Heather every day seems to be less and less good news for the rebels more and more wins.

For the government who has -- days seem to have denied.

This Syrian opposition any kind of foothold inside a -- they won the battle.

For -- -- neighborhood what we're seeing from the latest amateur video is this shaping up to be an insurgent war the rebels lightly armed with AK forty sevens and -- In the Syrian army with tanks artillery.

And attack aircraft it has been likened -- a very tragic game of the game whack a bowl where you have the insurgents.

Pop up in one city where the Syrian army comes in and questioned them there only for the rebels to pop up and yet another city.

What that projects going forward Heather is a very bloody civil war where neither side has the ability frequently change the balance of power -- the -- do secretary of state Clinton's upcoming meetings about Syria -- too much.

-- It doesn't -- -- Syrians think so the US is promising greater sanctions on Syria and some of its leaders but so far.

This -- it seemed to just brush that off that.

He thing right now that is on the minds of many western allies is the fear of foreign fighters there's a lot of foreign fighters now streaming in this area typically religious extremists either from Libya or -- hopefully they have a very different agenda.

Then what is on the mind of the Syrian rebels.

Who are home.

Ronald -- a year ago or six months ago.

It was very easy to the United States and other allies to say president Assad must go here's what we're gonna -- -- now big question is what happened.

If he does go who's gonna take control of Syria and it looks like right now.

Nobody's in a position to take control and you're gonna have a position of just a long and protracted civil war inside that country which has chemical weapons and is also very powerful regional player here in the Middle East at a Leland that are alive for a storm nearly spirit thank you.

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