Osama Abo Elezz, a doctor from the rebel-held part of Aleppo, said the barrel bombs fell Thursday in Aleppo’s Bab al-Nayreb district, hitting more than one building.
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Videos taken from the Syrian city of Aleppo have emerged showing two ash-covered boys sobbing and clinging to each other after finding out their brother had been killed.
AT least 11 children have been killed today in a Syrian government barrel bomb attack on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Aleppo. Daraya is south-west of Damascus and has been blockaded by government forces for almost four years.
A heartbreaking video was posted on ITV News Facebook yesterday, shows two young brothers hugging and crying after finding out that their brother was killed in the bomb blast.
State TV showed the buses leaving the area, and two activists from Daraya sent text messages as they boarded the buses to say they were leaving.
“I love my five children, oh God”, he said.
Turkey’s government, which is fighting a Kurdish insurgency at home, has said the Syrian campaign launched this week is as much about targeting Islamic State as it is about preventing Kurdish forces filling the vacuum left when Islamists withdraw.
Another video posted by activists in Aleppo shows a woman speaking to her dead child.
This video comes just days after the photo of a bloodied little boy, Omran Daqneesh in an ambulance after the airstrike went viral.
“He is my son … he is gone”, she screams.
She touches his face and closes his eyes.
As stories of death and destruction continued to emerge Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry met in Geneva on Friday to discuss Syria.
According to the Observatory, more than 290,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began. The International Red Cross has said the city is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis.
Meanwhile, a ceasefire has been agreed in the town of Daraya, allowing 700 rebel gunmen safe passage to the northern province of Idlib and allowing 4,000 women and children to escape to shelters outside the town.
It adds complexity to the Syrian conflict that erupted five years ago with an uprising against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and has since drawn in regional states and world powers. That road is controlled by the government and in the past the rebels have said they do not want to use that route.
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“It is now impossible to deny that the Syrian regime has repeatedly used industrial chlorine as a weapon against its own people”, US National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement Wednesday.
