Gunfire in an Aleppo neighborhood.<br/> <br />Amateur video purports to show Syrian government tanks around intelligence headquarters in Aleppo, as pro-Assad forces try to push back rebel gains.<br/> <br />Another shot is said show residents of Aleppo fleeing as gunfire is heard in the background.<br/> <br />Reuters cannot independently verify the content of the videos, mainly due to Syrian media restrictions.<br/> <br />The U.N. estimates that as many as 30,000 Syrians have fled for neighbouring Lebanon to escape the ongoing violence.<br/> <br />Most of them are coming from Damascus, where government forces are combating opposition advances in the city, just a week after an attack killed four top security officials.<br/> <br />The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 1,261 people had been killed across Syria since last Sunday.<br/> <br />Sarah Sheffer, Reuters
