Photos released by the Anadolu Agency show smoke rising from charred piles of debris.
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“Two missiles fell near the camp causing people to panic and two more fell inside where a dozen tents caught fire”, he said.
The Syrian military said the truce there would last only 48 hours.
That would mean it expires at 12:01 a.m. Friday.
Russian Federation blocked a British-drafted U.N. Security Council statement, which would have condemned the surge in violence in Aleppo and attacks against civilians.
“These individuals are in the most desperate situation imaginable, and there is no justification for carrying out military action that’s targeting them”, he said.
“Iraqi forces and tribal fighters have liberated five areas [in Fallujah] from Daesh and imposed their control over them”, Anbar Operations Commander Major-General Ismail Mahlawi said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIL.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included women and children, and that the toll from the strikes, which hit a camp for internally displaced people near the town of Sarmada, was likely to rise.
Rebels were attacking government positions around the town and government forces carried out air attacks on the area, pro-Syrian government television channel Al-Mayadeen and the Observatory said.
Images on its Facebook page showed the aftermath of fires among the blue tents in the camp, with the ground still smouldering.
But on Thursday afternoon, some residents in the city’s rebel-held east sat outside their homes drinking tea and smoking cigarettes, an AFP reporter there said.
Fighting involving government forces and jihadist groups continued on Thursday, with clashes reported near Khan Touman, south of Aleppo.
The concert was held against the backdrop of Palmyra’s Roman theatre where IS jihadists staged mass executions less than a year ago.
The IS militants badly damaged the world famous archaeological site of Palmyra.
“We’re still trying to garner details as to who’s responsible”.
There was also a video linkup in which Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the audience.
Syrian state TV is reporting that two explosions in a village in the central province of Homs have killed and wounded several people.
Homs Gov. Talal Barrazi told The Associated Press that the blasts were triggered by a vehicle bomb and a suicide attacker. Without the Turkish connection, insurgents would not have been able to conquer Idlib province, now dominated by Nusra, the countryside north of Aleppo, and Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the Islamic State terrorist group.
Meanwhile, relative calm prevailed in the deeply contested northern city of Aleppo, the centre of the worst recent violence, following a truce announced Wednesday by US officials in agreement with Russian Federation.
Late Wednesday the Syrian army said it had agreed to calls from Russian Federation and the USA for a two-day truce in Aleppo that would begin from 1:00 am on Thursday (2200 GMT Wednesday).
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Elsewhere, a salvo of rockets struck southern Turkey from Syrian territory, wounding four people, Turkey’s state-run agency said.
