“According to opposition activists, most of the victims were killed by air strikes and barrel bombs by Syrian government forces”, Al Jazeera’s Reza Sayah reported from Gaziantep on the Turkish border with Syria, adding that both sides in the conflict are blaming one another for the civilian casualties.
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A senior United Nations humanitarian official urged Thursday for an immediate pause to the fighting around Syria’s contested city of Aleppo as government forces pounded opposition areas with airstrikes and rebels kept up their attempts to break a government siege.
But regime fighters have put up a fierce fightback, retaking several positions from beleaguered rebel forces, a monitor said Wednesday.
The New York-based Physicians for Human Rights said in a statement Wednesday that over the past week, Syrian government forces launched deadly airstrikes against six hospitals in and around Aleppo.
Surrounded by regime troops in Aleppo’s eastern neighborhoods since last week, rebel militia groups have launched a sustained attack to drive through government lines to connect with opposition territory in the west.
It said he was killed while covering the offensive aiming to break the siege.
Rebels have held the eastern part of Aleppo for about four years.
The Aleppo offensive groups fighters from Fateh Al-Sham Front, formerly Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, the powerful Ahrar Al-Sham and other factions.
Video footage released by the rebels purports to show fighters inside the facility, inspecting captured weapons and equipment.
Egeland says there is “fighting in too many places, and that affects the besieged towns more than anything else”.
He said the Russian military had informed the US about the incident.
And pro-regime website Al-Masdar News said an initial rebel advance into the Ramussa district was pushed back “following a long and gruesome battle”.
He said the “liberation” of Aleppo “will have a prominent impact” in the Syrian crisis.
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Several Syrian opposition groups are embedded with Nusra, and Kerry said Washington had a responsibility to control them, while Russian Federation has to control Assad.
Russian Federation and the United States support opposing sides in Syria’s civil war, which has left 280,000 people dead and forced half the population to flee their homes.
Residents gather at the site of a bombattackinSyria’s northeastern city of Qamishli on July 27, 2016.A massive bomb blast claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens in the Kurdish-majority Syrian city.
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The warning came as yet another hospital in Aleppo was hit overnight, with the M2 facility run by the Syrian American Medical Society bombed for the third time.
