(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance forces on Thursday have thwarted regime and allied militias' attack on the southern countryside of Aleppo as aerial campaign extends on the eastern neighborhoods of stricken city, local reporter said.
Early Thursday, regime militants waged major offensive to take al-Qarasi town, such an attack has been faced with remarkable solidity by the resistance forces who inflicted heavy losses in regime ranks.
Meanwhile, regime air strikes killed 11 people in the neighborhoods of al-Salehin, Tariq al-Bab and Dhahrat Awad.
Russia said on Thursday it would support a 48-hour ceasefire in Aleppo, a move the U.N. Syria envoy said would allow aid to reach besieged areas soon, as long as all sides respect the temporary truce.
As pictures of a dazed child pulled from the rubble in heavily bombarded rebel-held eastern Aleppo captured the plight of the city's civilians, Moscow said it was ready to start the first "humanitarian pause" next week.
Western diplomats gave cautious welcome to the announcement, while raising questions about Moscow's motives and stressing the United Nations must be in charge of a sustained aid operation.
U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has long called for a 48-hour halt in fighting each week to allow aid delivery and medical evacuations from both rebel-held eastern and government-controlled western Aleppo.
He welcomed the Russian defense ministry announcement and said the U.N. humanitarian team "is now set to mobilize itself to respond to this challenge."
Aleppo, Syria's most populous pre-war city and its commercial hub, has become the focus of fighting in the five-year-old civil war. Up to 2 million people on both sides lack clean water after infrastructure was damaged in bombing.
More than 400,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since the beginning of Syria's revolution, which started in 2011 with anti-regime protests. (With Reuters)
Early Thursday, regime militants waged major offensive to take al-Qarasi town, such an attack has been faced with remarkable solidity by the resistance forces who inflicted heavy losses in regime ranks.
Meanwhile, regime air strikes killed 11 people in the neighborhoods of al-Salehin, Tariq al-Bab and Dhahrat Awad.
Russia said on Thursday it would support a 48-hour ceasefire in Aleppo, a move the U.N. Syria envoy said would allow aid to reach besieged areas soon, as long as all sides respect the temporary truce.
As pictures of a dazed child pulled from the rubble in heavily bombarded rebel-held eastern Aleppo captured the plight of the city's civilians, Moscow said it was ready to start the first "humanitarian pause" next week.
Western diplomats gave cautious welcome to the announcement, while raising questions about Moscow's motives and stressing the United Nations must be in charge of a sustained aid operation.
U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has long called for a 48-hour halt in fighting each week to allow aid delivery and medical evacuations from both rebel-held eastern and government-controlled western Aleppo.
He welcomed the Russian defense ministry announcement and said the U.N. humanitarian team "is now set to mobilize itself to respond to this challenge."
Aleppo, Syria's most populous pre-war city and its commercial hub, has become the focus of fighting in the five-year-old civil war. Up to 2 million people on both sides lack clean water after infrastructure was damaged in bombing.
More than 400,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since the beginning of Syria's revolution, which started in 2011 with anti-regime protests. (With Reuters)
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