A fighter jet roars overhead and seconds later… an explosion.<br/> <br />Dramatic new footage posted on to a social media website - which Reuters cannot independently verify - purports to show heavy fighting in Taftanaz in Idlib, northern Syria.<br/> <br />Plumes of smoke can be seen rising from the distance in the aftermath of the attack.<br/> <br />Meanwhile, fighters from the Islamist Front to Liberate Syria can purportedly be seen shooting rockets in a bid to 'liberate' Taftanaz military airport from government control.<br/> <br />The government has used Taftanaz to fuel helicopter gunships and fighter jets that have bombarded nearby villages.<br/> <br />Rebels fighters are trying to cut off Syria's biggest city Aleppo from capital Damascus and secure a strategic north-south corridor as the battle to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rages on.<br/> <br />The bloodshed has endured despite an attempted ceasefire, proposed by UN peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, to mark last month's Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
