(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 people have been killed in Syrian and Russian air strikes on rebel-held areas in northern provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, a monitor said Tuesday.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 20 people, including 5 women, have been killed in missile attack fired into local marketplace in the town of Maskanah in Aleppo.
More 4 people have been killed in al-Bab town in barrel bomb attack, the monitoring said.
In its turn, Russian warplanes have carried out devastating strikes on a fuel market in Ma'rret al-Nassan town in Idlib, leaving 6 people burning to death as the whole market has turned to large cloud of black smoke.
Russian air force in Syria, which consists of around 50 planes and helicopters with a further 37 aircraft, had carried out around 3000 sorties in Syria in the last 11 weeks, killing more than 1200 people.
In relevant development, Russia's defense ministry said on Tuesday its planes had carried out air strikes to support four rebel groups in Syria, saying it was working to try to unite the efforts of the Free Syrian Army and government troops against Islamic State, Reuters reported.
It said it had conducted strikes in support of a group called "Ganim" which it said was part of the Free Syrian Army, as well as in support of a group called "Desert Lions", another group called "Kalamun," and another called "the Democratic Forces."
A senior Western diplomat who declined to be named was skeptical of Russia's assertions about its collaboration with the FSA, according to Reuters.
"That’s not reality on the ground," the diplomat said. "The FSA categorically denies it and it’s pure propaganda to try and divide the opposition.”
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 20 people, including 5 women, have been killed in missile attack fired into local marketplace in the town of Maskanah in Aleppo.
More 4 people have been killed in al-Bab town in barrel bomb attack, the monitoring said.
In its turn, Russian warplanes have carried out devastating strikes on a fuel market in Ma'rret al-Nassan town in Idlib, leaving 6 people burning to death as the whole market has turned to large cloud of black smoke.
Russian air force in Syria, which consists of around 50 planes and helicopters with a further 37 aircraft, had carried out around 3000 sorties in Syria in the last 11 weeks, killing more than 1200 people.
In relevant development, Russia's defense ministry said on Tuesday its planes had carried out air strikes to support four rebel groups in Syria, saying it was working to try to unite the efforts of the Free Syrian Army and government troops against Islamic State, Reuters reported.
It said it had conducted strikes in support of a group called "Ganim" which it said was part of the Free Syrian Army, as well as in support of a group called "Desert Lions", another group called "Kalamun," and another called "the Democratic Forces."
A senior Western diplomat who declined to be named was skeptical of Russia's assertions about its collaboration with the FSA, according to Reuters.
"That’s not reality on the ground," the diplomat said. "The FSA categorically denies it and it’s pure propaganda to try and divide the opposition.”
The U.S. and Russia
agreed Tuesday to push ahead with Syrian peace talks in New York this
week, after intense talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and
President Vladimir Putin, AFP reported.
After a three-hour meeting in Moscow between Putin and Kerry, Russia and the United States appeared to be a step closer to each other's positions on Syria, though differences remained on the fate of Bashar al-Assad.
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