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Syrian rebels launched a fierce attack Wednesday on the air force intelligence headquarters in Aleppo, leaving at least several dozen dead, days after the opposition rejected a U.N. cease-fire plan for the city, The Daily Star reported. 

At least 20 members of regime security forces and 14 rebels were killed in a powerful blast and attack targeting air force intelligence offices in the west of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Jihadi groups, including the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and the Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar Army, claimed responsibility for the attack, which partly destroyed the building.

The goal was to storm the building and to control it, but they failed,” said Rami Abdel-Rahman, the director of the Britain-based monitoring group, calling it a blow to the Syrian security establishment.

“It’s very important, it should have been better protected,” he said.

Six civilians were also killed in separate rebel shelling of regime-controlled areas, he said.