The assault began on Sunday and is meant to ease the encirclement of the opposition-held east of Aleppo city, where an estimated 250,000 residents have been under regime siege since July 17.
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Once Syria’s largest city, Aleppo has been roughly divided between government control in the west and rebel control in the east since mid-2012.
The group said it verified each attack.
The world body has said that almost 250,000 civilians are under siege in eastern Aleppo as rebels who control the area fend off Syrian, Russian, and Iranian-backed forces.
The U.N. estimates that between 250,000 and 300,000 residents have been trapped in the besieged, eastern part of Aleppo since pro-government forces cut the last supply route in July.
Overnight, at least 10 civilians, including four children, were killed in rebel shelling of government-controlled districts on Aleppo’s southwestern edges, the monitor said.
The Aleppo offensive groups fighters from Al-Qaeda’s former Syria affiliate, the powerful Islamist Ahrar al-Sham and other groups.
It said that n casualties were reported as at the time of the report.
“As soon as there is real headway in fighting terrorists, made by the Syrian government and army with our support, the Americans started… demanding that we stop fighting terrorists”, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told RIA-Novosti agency.
But rebels have struggled to hold newly acquired territory in the face of heavy Russian air strikes, Abdel Rahman said.
According to the Observatory, at least 115 civilians, including 35 children, have been killed in Aleppo since the rebel assault began on Sunday.
A European diplomat, meanwhile, noted that the bombing of Aleppo isn’t just a humanitarian crisis, but a counterterrorism fiasco as well.
Russia, a staunch Assad ally, had declared it was offering humanitarian corridors for residents to leave the area, but rights groups said such passages are not neutral and don’t offer guarantees to civilians wishing to use them.
On Thursday, US President Barack Obama said Russian Federation risked casting itself as an “irresponsible actor” on the world stage particularly due to its actions in Aleppo in recent weeks.
Syrian state media said on Tuesday that five people were killed and that eight others suffered injuries induced by suffocation after rebels fired rockets containing poison gases. United Nations humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said Russia’s proposal was limited and said the United Nations was ready with a much more comprehensive operation to take aid to the 250,000 civilians blockaded inside eastern Aleppo and to evacuate those who wanted to leave, including the wounded.
A doctor from Idlib province told AFP on Wednesday that those affected had been treated and sent home.
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The US is still “looking into that incident”, State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said on Wednesday.
