(Zaman Al Wasl)- At east 30 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded in regime and Russia's air strikes on the battleground city of Aleppo, Civil Defense rescuing group said Wednesday.
The regime and Russian warplanes pounded the neighborhoods of al-Sha'ar and al-Sukkari, killing more than 30 people, including 9 children.
Damascus and its ally Russia launched a wide-ranging assault on rebels on Tuesday, shattering a month of relative calm in the rebel-held east of devastated Aleppo.
An AFP correspondent in the east reported heavy bombardment throughout the night and into the morning.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said at least 12 civilians, among them four children, had been killed in government air strikes and artillery fire in eastern Aleppo on Wednesday.
That followed the deaths of at least eight civilians in the besieged opposition-held side of the city on Tuesday, the monitor said.
The Observatory also reported ongoing strikes in Idlib province, in northwestern Syria, which is mostly controlled by a coalition of rebel groups including Al-Qaeda's former affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front.
- Food aid runs out in Aleppo -
The monitor said six people had been killed in strikes in the village of Kafr Jalis in Idlib on Tuesday night.
"The shelling targeted innocent civilians in their homes in Kafr Jalis, and there is a lot of destruction," said Yahya Arja from the White Helmets civil defense in the province.
"We worked through the night to lift the debris and remove the martyrs and surviving civilians, and now we're trying to remove the rubble blocking the roads," he told AFP.
The bombardment ended a period of relative respite, particularly in eastern Aleppo, where Moscow halted air strikes on October 18 ahead of a series of brief ceasefires.
The ceasefires were intended to encourage residents and surrendering rebels to leave the east, but few did so, expressing fear of moving into government-held territory.
Food aid stockpiled in the east is all-but-exhausted, with international organisations and their local partners saying they were distributing the final rations in recent days.
No aid has entered the eastern neighbourhoods since government troops surrounded it in mid-July.
Once Syria's economic powerhouse, Aleppo has been ravaged by the war that has killed more than 400,000 people across the country since it started in March 2011 with anti-government protests. (With AFP)
The regime and Russian warplanes pounded the neighborhoods of al-Sha'ar and al-Sukkari, killing more than 30 people, including 9 children.
Damascus and its ally Russia launched a wide-ranging assault on rebels on Tuesday, shattering a month of relative calm in the rebel-held east of devastated Aleppo.
An AFP correspondent in the east reported heavy bombardment throughout the night and into the morning.
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said at least 12 civilians, among them four children, had been killed in government air strikes and artillery fire in eastern Aleppo on Wednesday.
That followed the deaths of at least eight civilians in the besieged opposition-held side of the city on Tuesday, the monitor said.
The Observatory also reported ongoing strikes in Idlib province, in northwestern Syria, which is mostly controlled by a coalition of rebel groups including Al-Qaeda's former affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front.
- Food aid runs out in Aleppo -
The monitor said six people had been killed in strikes in the village of Kafr Jalis in Idlib on Tuesday night.
"The shelling targeted innocent civilians in their homes in Kafr Jalis, and there is a lot of destruction," said Yahya Arja from the White Helmets civil defense in the province.
"We worked through the night to lift the debris and remove the martyrs and surviving civilians, and now we're trying to remove the rubble blocking the roads," he told AFP.
The bombardment ended a period of relative respite, particularly in eastern Aleppo, where Moscow halted air strikes on October 18 ahead of a series of brief ceasefires.
The ceasefires were intended to encourage residents and surrendering rebels to leave the east, but few did so, expressing fear of moving into government-held territory.
Food aid stockpiled in the east is all-but-exhausted, with international organisations and their local partners saying they were distributing the final rations in recent days.
No aid has entered the eastern neighbourhoods since government troops surrounded it in mid-July.
Once Syria's economic powerhouse, Aleppo has been ravaged by the war that has killed more than 400,000 people across the country since it started in March 2011 with anti-government protests. (With AFP)
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