The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the airstrikes, saying 24 civilians were killed, along with six others whose affiliation and identities could not yet be confirmed.
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In Aleppo, a Syrian rescue worker and opposition activists said the attack on an opposition-held district killed at least two people.
The Russian defense ministry said the raids destroyed a “chemical weapons factory” on Raqa’s outskirts as well as a weapons storage facility and IS training camp to the north and southeast.
The UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on Thursday said that the ongoing fighting in Aleppo shows that no military solution is possible in the Syrian city or elsewhere in the war-torn Middle East country, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
Russia, which backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, said on Wednesday daily ceasefires would last from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. daily to facilitate the delivery of aid supplies.
The United Nations said on Thursday it was talking to Russian Federation about a “workable humanitarian pause” in fighting in Aleppo and that three hours a day was “not enough” to help up to two million civilians trapped in the divided Syrian city.
At least four people have died and dozens of others – many children and babies – were injured after bombs allegedly containing chlorine were dropped on the rebel-held Zubdiya area in the city.
“This attack in Aleppo is yet another flagrant violation of worldwide humanitarian law and signals a distressing pattern in the use of chemical weapons by regime forces”, said Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.
An upsurge of intense fighting around Aleppo has killed scores of Syrians in the past weeks, displaced thousands and cut water and power to up to people on both sides of the front line, worsening the already dire conditions faced by hundreds of thousands in the city.
Russian Federation has announced a daily halt to hostilities between 7pm NZT and 10pm NZT from Thursday, to allow in aid. “We need 48 hours”.
There was no letup in fighting between Syrian allied forces backed by Russian Federation airstrikes and rebels in Aleppo on Thursday, a day after reports of a chlorine attack on rebel positions.
“Clearly, from our point of view, we’re simply there to meet the need, all the need.”, O’Brien said.
A senior United Nations humanitarian official says Russian Federation has agreed to hold talks with United Nations officials to hammer out a workable plan for a humanitarian pause in fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
People gather to buy fresh produce that was brought into rebel held areas of Aleppo by private traders from a newly opened corridor that linked besieged, opposition-held eastern Aleppo with western Syria that was captured recently by rebels. At least four barrel bombs were dropped late Wednesday on the city’s eastern Zabadieh neighborhood, one of which purportedly released the chlorine gas.
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham announced on August 8 that the next phase of battles in Aleppo will be a wide-scale offensive to “liberate the entire city” from government forces.
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Last week, rebels broke through a month-long government siege in the city’s east, where an estimated 250,000 are living.
