(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 civilians, mostly children, were killed when the the Russian warplanes hit the town of Kafrnaha in Aleppo province, local reporter said Friday.
Three more children were also wounded in Russian air strikes on Atareb town as the aerial bombing were extended to pound most of the western countryside villages.
On Friday, Syrian rebels fighters and civilians showed no sign of leaving the besieged opposition-held sector of Aleppo, despite a Russian deadline to resume bombing Syria's largest city at nightfall after a 17-day pause.
Moscow and Damascus say their pause in bombing the city will end at 7 pm (1700 GMT), accusing rebels of having used the pause to reinforce and launch attacks on government-held areas.
Western countries say the bombing has deliberately targeted hospitals, aid workers and bakeries and Washington has accused Moscow of "war crimes". Rebels say the aim is to drive out civilians, some 275,000 of whom remain in the besieged zone.
The regime army, backed by Lebanese, Iranian, and Iraqi Shi'ite militias and Russia's air force, launched a major offensive to retake eastern Aleppo from rebel groups on Sept. 22 after a series of advances allowed them to besiege it this summer.
The city has been divided between the government-held western sector and rebel-held east for years. Winning full control of it would be the biggest victory so far for Assad's government in a war that has killed many hundreds of thousands of people and driven more than half of Syrians from their homes.
In recent months other opposition-held areas have surrendered after long army sieges. The government calls the process reconciliation, offering safe passage out for rebel fighters who abandon territory and lay down their arms.
It has proposed a similar program to end the siege of eastern Aleppo, opening what the army calls safe corridors, and sending ambulances for injured civilians and green city buses to transport fighters to Idlib, a rebel-held area.
Rebels launched a counter-attack a week ago against the western edge of regime-held areas from the surrounding countryside. They have made progress in the Dahiyet al-Assad suburb and the 1070 apartment blocks district, using 15 suicide car bomb attacks during the week, a war monitor said.
The Observatory said the rebels had killed 69 civilians including 25 children in shelling during their counter-attack. (With Reuters)
Three more children were also wounded in Russian air strikes on Atareb town as the aerial bombing were extended to pound most of the western countryside villages.
On Friday, Syrian rebels fighters and civilians showed no sign of leaving the besieged opposition-held sector of Aleppo, despite a Russian deadline to resume bombing Syria's largest city at nightfall after a 17-day pause.
Moscow and Damascus say their pause in bombing the city will end at 7 pm (1700 GMT), accusing rebels of having used the pause to reinforce and launch attacks on government-held areas.
Western countries say the bombing has deliberately targeted hospitals, aid workers and bakeries and Washington has accused Moscow of "war crimes". Rebels say the aim is to drive out civilians, some 275,000 of whom remain in the besieged zone.
The regime army, backed by Lebanese, Iranian, and Iraqi Shi'ite militias and Russia's air force, launched a major offensive to retake eastern Aleppo from rebel groups on Sept. 22 after a series of advances allowed them to besiege it this summer.
The city has been divided between the government-held western sector and rebel-held east for years. Winning full control of it would be the biggest victory so far for Assad's government in a war that has killed many hundreds of thousands of people and driven more than half of Syrians from their homes.
In recent months other opposition-held areas have surrendered after long army sieges. The government calls the process reconciliation, offering safe passage out for rebel fighters who abandon territory and lay down their arms.
It has proposed a similar program to end the siege of eastern Aleppo, opening what the army calls safe corridors, and sending ambulances for injured civilians and green city buses to transport fighters to Idlib, a rebel-held area.
Rebels launched a counter-attack a week ago against the western edge of regime-held areas from the surrounding countryside. They have made progress in the Dahiyet al-Assad suburb and the 1070 apartment blocks district, using 15 suicide car bomb attacks during the week, a war monitor said.
The Observatory said the rebels had killed 69 civilians including 25 children in shelling during their counter-attack. (With Reuters)
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