Thousands of Syrian insurgents took over most of Aleppo on Saturday, establishing positions in the country's largest city and controlling its airport before expanding their shock offensive to a nearby province.

Thousands of Syrian insurgents have fanned out inside Syria’s largest city Aleppo a day after storming it with little resistance from government troops

With Russia and Iran devoting much of their resources to their own wars, the Syrian rebels took Aleppo with little resistance from the Assad regime.