The White Helmets, a neutral volunteer rescue group, has called for the UN Security Council to pressure the Assad regime to stop using barrel bombs, a common form of attack against rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
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Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011.
Fighting in the deeply contested city of Aleppo has not let up despite global efforts to establish a cease-fire.
The government advance in Ramussa further seals off Aleppo’s opposition-held eastern districts which have been under renewed siege since Sunday by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
The five-year-old conflict in Syria has killed more than 250,000 people and forced more than 11 million from their homes.
Aleppo province, which borders Turkey to the north, is a patchwork of territory held by competing forces in Syria’s war: rebels, the government, Kurdish fighters, and militant groups including Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly the Nusra Front.
Meanwhile, the plight of some 250,000 civilians trapped in rebel-held districts of Aleppo has spurred global efforts to agree a new humanitarian truce.
On Thursday Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed by phone potential cooperation to facilitate aid deliveries.
Johnson says in The Times column that Assad can have no part in a future government in Syria. Russian Federation and Iran support Assad.
In a statement, the ministry said the attack showed the Syrian regime had disregarded the global community once again.
Footage of the apparent chlorine gas attack on the Sukari district, near Aleppo’s main battlefield in the city’s southwest, showed crying children being doused with water and then lying on hospital beds and breathing through respirators.
Medical groups and activists in Syria frequently allege that the Assad regime uses chlorine gas in barrel bombs against rebel-held areas.
Assad’s use of chlorine as a weapon violates the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2235, which calls for global action in the case of continued chemical weapons use by the Syrian dictator. The Syrian government denied having carried out the attack.
News reports of the most recent alleged use of chlorine bombs by the Syrian government comes nearly two weeks after the United Nations-backed Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) determined that Assad still has the capability to launch chemical weapon attacks, noting that its inspectors discovered the presence of previously undeclared chemical weapon agents.
Hospitals in Aleppo were filled with the screams of bloodied children today as the city was shelled just 24 hours after an alleged chlorine gas attack.
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A recent United Nations report determined that both the government and Islamic State militants have used chemical weapons on several occasions.
