(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Nusra Front fighters on Saturday have recaptured a ground from regime troops and their allies in the southern countryside of Aleppo, the al-Qaeda branch in Syria said via social media.
Nusra Fighters have recaptured al-Qarasi and al Jameeiya hills, and Maryamin villages south of Aleppo. The dominant group north and west Syria posted online footage showing its advance in time Russian warplanes extended its air strikes on eastern and southern Aleppo.
At least 64 people, including 28 children, have been killed by Syrian army and Russian air raids in Aleppo in the past 24 hours, activists said on Saturday.
The raids hit Aleppo city and a number of towns and villages elsewhere in the province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as Syrian regime forces backed by Russian air cover intensified bombardments against insurgents throughout the country, according to Reuters.
At least 120,000 people have been displaced since early October in Aleppo, Hama and Idlib, the United Nations said on Monday, more than doubling an earlier estimate of 50,000.
In the Syrian east, a newly formed U.S.-backed Syrian rebel alliance on Saturday launched an offensive against Islamic State in the northeast province of Hasaka, a day after the United States said it would send special forces to advise insurgents fighting the jihadists.
It was the first declared operation by the Democratic Forces of Syria, which joins together a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia and several Syrian Arab rebel groups, since it announced its formation earlier this month.
World powers and regional rivals are convening in Vienna to seek a solution to the four-year conflict in Syria that has escalated since Russia intervened a month ago with an intense air campaign.
Nusra Fighters have recaptured al-Qarasi and al Jameeiya hills, and Maryamin villages south of Aleppo. The dominant group north and west Syria posted online footage showing its advance in time Russian warplanes extended its air strikes on eastern and southern Aleppo.
At least 64 people, including 28 children, have been killed by Syrian army and Russian air raids in Aleppo in the past 24 hours, activists said on Saturday.
The raids hit Aleppo city and a number of towns and villages elsewhere in the province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as Syrian regime forces backed by Russian air cover intensified bombardments against insurgents throughout the country, according to Reuters.
At least 120,000 people have been displaced since early October in Aleppo, Hama and Idlib, the United Nations said on Monday, more than doubling an earlier estimate of 50,000.
In the Syrian east, a newly formed U.S.-backed Syrian rebel alliance on Saturday launched an offensive against Islamic State in the northeast province of Hasaka, a day after the United States said it would send special forces to advise insurgents fighting the jihadists.
It was the first declared operation by the Democratic Forces of Syria, which joins together a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia and several Syrian Arab rebel groups, since it announced its formation earlier this month.
World powers and regional rivals are convening in Vienna to seek a solution to the four-year conflict in Syria that has escalated since Russia intervened a month ago with an intense air campaign.
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