(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 people have been killed in regime air strikes on rebel-held towns of Aleppo province, activists said Tuesday as19 more people have been killed in rebel rocket attack on regime-held areas.
The air strikes hit towns of al-Layramoun, Hraitan and la-Bouwaiydha al-Saghira, leaving 10 civilians dead.
Local coordination Committees have also reported new raids al-Aryan, al-Qyoul and al-Muwasalt neighborhoods in Aleppo.
Al-Hulk neighborhoods was hit by crude barrel bomb, they added.
In western Aleppo, rebels thwarted regime attack on al-Rashideen neighborhood, and cross artillery fire reported near al-Ramouseh neighborhood.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group that monitors the conflict, said rebel rockets had killed 19 people in regime-held territory, including an unspecified number at the al-Dabit hospital.
It described a rebel offensive that led to casualties on both sides. Rebels had hit a government gun position with a guided missile.
The rebel attack followed government air strikes on rebel areas, including one that hit a hospital last week, which medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said killed 55 civilians.
The Observatory has reported 279 civilians killed on both sides in Aleppo since April 22, by intense government air strikes and rebel shelling, with 155 killed in opposition-held areas and 124 in government-held districts.
Tuesday's rebel ground assault focused on the Jamiat al-Zahraa area of the city, where insurgent groups took a few buildings before advances were checked by the arrival of reinforcements on the government side, the Observatory said.
Aleppo has been the scene of the worst surge in fighting in recent days, wrecking the first major ceasefire of the five-year-old civil war, sponsored by the United States and Russia, which had held since February.
In an effort to revive the ceasefire, temporary local truces have been put in place in two parts of Syria, but those have not been extended to Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the war and its biggest strategic prize now.
U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura, who met U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva on Monday and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday, said he hoped the truce could be extended to Aleppo swiftly.
"We all hope that ... in a few hours we can relaunch the cessation of hostilities. If we can do this, we will be back on the right track," de Mistura said. If the truce were extended to Aleppo, peace talks could resume, he said.
Lavrov said: "The process of agreeing a ceasefire in Aleppo is being finished right now between Russian and American military personnel."
He added that he hoped it could be announced in the near future, "maybe even in the coming hours".
The air strikes hit towns of al-Layramoun, Hraitan and la-Bouwaiydha al-Saghira, leaving 10 civilians dead.
Local coordination Committees have also reported new raids al-Aryan, al-Qyoul and al-Muwasalt neighborhoods in Aleppo.
Al-Hulk neighborhoods was hit by crude barrel bomb, they added.
In western Aleppo, rebels thwarted regime attack on al-Rashideen neighborhood, and cross artillery fire reported near al-Ramouseh neighborhood.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group that monitors the conflict, said rebel rockets had killed 19 people in regime-held territory, including an unspecified number at the al-Dabit hospital.
It described a rebel offensive that led to casualties on both sides. Rebels had hit a government gun position with a guided missile.
The rebel attack followed government air strikes on rebel areas, including one that hit a hospital last week, which medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said killed 55 civilians.
The Observatory has reported 279 civilians killed on both sides in Aleppo since April 22, by intense government air strikes and rebel shelling, with 155 killed in opposition-held areas and 124 in government-held districts.
Tuesday's rebel ground assault focused on the Jamiat al-Zahraa area of the city, where insurgent groups took a few buildings before advances were checked by the arrival of reinforcements on the government side, the Observatory said.
Aleppo has been the scene of the worst surge in fighting in recent days, wrecking the first major ceasefire of the five-year-old civil war, sponsored by the United States and Russia, which had held since February.
In an effort to revive the ceasefire, temporary local truces have been put in place in two parts of Syria, but those have not been extended to Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the war and its biggest strategic prize now.
U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura, who met U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva on Monday and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday, said he hoped the truce could be extended to Aleppo swiftly.
"We all hope that ... in a few hours we can relaunch the cessation of hostilities. If we can do this, we will be back on the right track," de Mistura said. If the truce were extended to Aleppo, peace talks could resume, he said.
Lavrov said: "The process of agreeing a ceasefire in Aleppo is being finished right now between Russian and American military personnel."
He added that he hoped it could be announced in the near future, "maybe even in the coming hours".
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