Insurgents breached Syria's largest city Friday and clashed with government forces for the first time since 2016, in a surprise attack that sent residents fleeing.

Islamist rebels breached neighborhoods in Syria’s second-largest city of Aleppo and clashed with government military forces after detonating two car bombs Friday.

Insurgents breached Syria ’s second-largest city, Aleppo, after blowing up two car bombs Friday and were clashing with government forces on the city’s western edge, according to a Syria war monitor and fighters.