Activists said that 12 pro-Assad militants were killed and many others wounded in the Bureij and Manashir areas in northern Aleppo during violent clashes with rebels. Rebels advanced on regime positions in Khan Tuman southeast of Aleppo. In rural Idlib, rebel battalions initiated a new push to capture Wadi Al-Dayf and Al-Hamidiya army bases in rural Idlib, taking over five regime checkpoints and destroying a BMP armored vehicle. (Source: Syrian Coalition + Al Jazeera)