(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has killed more 50 civilians in northern Aleppo city in deadly air strikes rocked most opposition-held areas, local reporter said Tuesday.
More than 60 raids have been conducted since early morning, killing 23 people in Tariq al-Bab neighborhood and 20 more people in strike hit their bus near al-Ramouseh district while 7 others lost their lives in al-Sakhour neighborhood.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said about 400 civilians, including 126 children, have been killed in fighting in Aleppo province. The toll includes 126 people killed by rebel shelling of regime-held parts of Aleppo city.
Fighting for control of Aleppo, split between regime-held west and rebel-held eastern neighborhoods, has intensified in recent weeks causing hundreds of deaths and depriving many civilians of power, water and vital supplies.
Rebel groups then attacked the army's positions in a cement factory on the city's southwest, adjacent to the mouth of a corridor into opposition-held east Aleppo that rebels had opened up a week ago, breaking a government siege.
Aleppo is one of the bastions of the rebellion to oust Bashar al-Assad, whose army is backed on the ground by Shi'ite Muslim militias from neighboring countries and from the skies by Russian air strikes.
In other casualties in Syria Tuesday, nine civilians, including a child, were killed in airstrikes in Deir Ezzor, and three children were killed in Ma'ra Masrin in the countryside of Idlib province, it said.
The Syrian government's key military backer, Russia, began launching air missions over Syria from an airbase in Iran Tuesday -- the first time a major power has done so since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Russia's defense ministry said in a statement that its bombers had taken off from Hamedan airbase in western Iran Tuesday, hitting targets belonging to Islamist terror groups ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra -- recently rebranded as Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham -- in the provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor and Idlib. (With agencies)
More than 60 raids have been conducted since early morning, killing 23 people in Tariq al-Bab neighborhood and 20 more people in strike hit their bus near al-Ramouseh district while 7 others lost their lives in al-Sakhour neighborhood.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said about 400 civilians, including 126 children, have been killed in fighting in Aleppo province. The toll includes 126 people killed by rebel shelling of regime-held parts of Aleppo city.
Fighting for control of Aleppo, split between regime-held west and rebel-held eastern neighborhoods, has intensified in recent weeks causing hundreds of deaths and depriving many civilians of power, water and vital supplies.
Rebel groups then attacked the army's positions in a cement factory on the city's southwest, adjacent to the mouth of a corridor into opposition-held east Aleppo that rebels had opened up a week ago, breaking a government siege.
Aleppo is one of the bastions of the rebellion to oust Bashar al-Assad, whose army is backed on the ground by Shi'ite Muslim militias from neighboring countries and from the skies by Russian air strikes.
In other casualties in Syria Tuesday, nine civilians, including a child, were killed in airstrikes in Deir Ezzor, and three children were killed in Ma'ra Masrin in the countryside of Idlib province, it said.
The Syrian government's key military backer, Russia, began launching air missions over Syria from an airbase in Iran Tuesday -- the first time a major power has done so since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Russia's defense ministry said in a statement that its bombers had taken off from Hamedan airbase in western Iran Tuesday, hitting targets belonging to Islamist terror groups ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra -- recently rebranded as Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham -- in the provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor and Idlib. (With agencies)
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