Once Syria’s largest city, Aleppo has been roughly divided between government control in the west and rebel control in the east since mid-2012.
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Between Thursday and Friday, some 16 civilians, including four children, were killed by Syrian government and Russian airstrikes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Ahmed Hassan Obeid, an activist based in Atarib, said the strike forced hundreds of families to flee the camp in search of safety.
While the world’s attention is on Aleppo, rebels and the government are fighting in other areas as well none more consequential than around the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.
Al Masri said he took cover in a basement for an hour with neighbors, including children, as strikes hammered the area. The U.N. refugee agency says a further 6.5 million are displaced inside the country.
“I saw seven others injured”.
“One of them was a child who lost his leg, and he is now in a serious condition”.
Last month, a 24-year-old Colorado man who joined the YPG was killed in combat in Syria, his mother Susan Shirley said. Residents have been setting fire to tire after tire in a desperate attempt to disrupt the near constant airstrikes on the besieged side of their city.
The latest advance by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) opened the way for some 2,300 additional civilians to evacuate the town, the monitor said.
At the moment, the US and Russian Federation are in intensive discussions to prop up a deteriorated nationwide ceasefire that “would unlock the entire solution”, said Ramzy.
Meanwhile, Syrian opposition factions have launched what they said was the “fourth stage” of their battle in Aleppo, with reports saying the factions might soon lift the siege of the rebel-controlled areas.
However, all of their efforts have been rendered flat so far, as the government siege on rebel-held areas is still in place.
The groups waging the offensive – including fighters from Al-Qaeda’s former Syria affiliate and the powerful Islamist Ahrar al-Sham – have promised to end the government encirclement of eastern parts of Aleppo.
“Five civilians died and eight more suffered suffocation as a result of terrorist attacks with shells that contain poisonous gas”, Mohamad Hazouri the city’s health director told SANA.
Mr Egeland said that only 40 per cent of planned humanitarian aid was delivered in June and July.
The corridors, he said, “need to be guaranteed by all parties in the area”. Weve been expecting terrorists to use weapons of this kind, a doctor at the Aleppo hospital told RT.
“If this doesn’t happen, it will be a black stain on the conscience of humanity”, he said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government forces seized two hilltops and two small villages in the southwest suburbs of Aleppo late Tuesday. “It’s like we’re erasing a century of progress for humanity, for civilization”.
“We are extremely alarmed at Russian Federation and Syria’s joint proposal to set up so-called “humanitarian corridors” out of eastern Aleppo”.
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Rebels accused the government of carrying out a chemical attack on the town of Saraqeb, south-west of Aleppo, on Tuesday. The shootdown is the biggest officially acknowledged loss for Russian army since it started military campaign in Syria.
