(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 civilians have been killed on Saturday in regime aerial bombing on the western countryside of Aleppo city, local activists said as regime forces press to recapture ground lost to the Syrian resistance last week.
5 people were killed in Shamico town and 6 more people were killed in the town of al-Jenniya.
On Friday, regime warplanes fired missiles into local market in al-Ferdous neighborhood, leaving 21 people dead. Also, 14 family members were killed in regime strikes on Hayyan town, according to activists.
Regime forces backed by allied militias launched counter attack to repel opposition forces from al-Ramouseh and a strategic military complex they seized last Friday, where they broke one-month-old Aleppo siege.
Advances by warring sides in the last month, which resulted in a siege of opposition-held neighborhoods and the severing of a major route into regime areas of control, have choked off supplies and raised fears of the encirclement of the entire civilian population.
The United Nations has called for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in Aleppo, and is pushing for a resumption of peace talks that have failed to end the five-year conflict in which more than 250,000 people have been killed and some 11 million displaced.
Syrian opposition said Friday that rebel gains in Aleppo will strengthen the opposition's hand in the new round of peace talks, a negotiator told Reuters.
Previous rounds collapsed earlier this year when the opposition objected to the forces of President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies continuing to bomb and besiege rebel-held areas while the Geneva talks were seeking a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
Bassma Kodmani, a member and spokeswoman of the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), said Damascus and Moscow had to recognize that last week's advance in Aleppo had changed the facts on the ground. (With Reuters)
5 people were killed in Shamico town and 6 more people were killed in the town of al-Jenniya.
On Friday, regime warplanes fired missiles into local market in al-Ferdous neighborhood, leaving 21 people dead. Also, 14 family members were killed in regime strikes on Hayyan town, according to activists.
Regime forces backed by allied militias launched counter attack to repel opposition forces from al-Ramouseh and a strategic military complex they seized last Friday, where they broke one-month-old Aleppo siege.
Advances by warring sides in the last month, which resulted in a siege of opposition-held neighborhoods and the severing of a major route into regime areas of control, have choked off supplies and raised fears of the encirclement of the entire civilian population.
The United Nations has called for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire in Aleppo, and is pushing for a resumption of peace talks that have failed to end the five-year conflict in which more than 250,000 people have been killed and some 11 million displaced.
Syrian opposition said Friday that rebel gains in Aleppo will strengthen the opposition's hand in the new round of peace talks, a negotiator told Reuters.
Previous rounds collapsed earlier this year when the opposition objected to the forces of President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies continuing to bomb and besiege rebel-held areas while the Geneva talks were seeking a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
Bassma Kodmani, a member and spokeswoman of the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), said Damascus and Moscow had to recognize that last week's advance in Aleppo had changed the facts on the ground. (With Reuters)
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