He said the Russian military had informed the USA about the incident.
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Fighting has raged in and near Aleppo for more than two months.
Al Masri said he witnessed one man die.
“One of them was a child who lost his leg, and he is now in a serious condition”. He was just 7 or 8 years old. “Insurgents fired rocket launchers and homemade mortars at the “Castello” shopping mall, the areas of Ansar and al-Hadher as well as the Leramon district”, it said.
Monitors from another group, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also say the barrel bombs were dropped on Saraqeb.
Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, has been divided since 2012 between the eastern half, controlled by rebels fighting to overthrow Assad, and the west, controlled by forces belonging to or allied with the regime.
An AFP journalist in east Aleppo said clashes and shelling could be heard throughout the night, followed by barrel bomb attacks and air strikes in the early morning.
A rebel offensive is trying to break the government siege of rebel-held areas.
“As soon as there is real headway in fighting terrorists, made by the Syrian government and army with our support, the Americans started demanding that we stop fighting terrorists”, Sergei Ryabkov, deputy foreign minister, said.
He was speaking after a weekly meeting of the Syria humanitarian taskforce, and a week after Russian Federation wrongfooted the U.N.by unveiling a plan for humanitarian corridors and the evacuation of Aleppo’s civilians. Kerry said the attacks prevented the warring parties from meeting Monday, the target date set by the global community for the regime and opposition to agree on the framework for political transition. Weve been expecting terrorists to use weapons of this kind, a doctor at the Aleppo hospital told RT.
Russian Federation says it has prepared 14 tons of humanitarian cargo for those who leave the city, with 2.5 tons of food and other essentials already supplied.
In a press release published on its website on Wednesday, the group said that six hospitals had been struck by government forces during the last week of July. “It’s like we’re erasing a century of progress for humanity, for civilization”.
The SCD was unable to verify that it was, indeed, chlorine gas.
All five crew members were killed in the attack.
Physicians in the town of Saraqeb told reporters as many as five containers of chlorine hit neighborhoods there shortly before midnight.
Russia, Syria’s key military backer, has vehemently denied that a chemical attack took place.
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A boy inspects burning tires, which activists said are used to create smoke cover from warplanes, in Aleppo, Syria on August 1, 2016.
