“A bomb killed at least two children and one woman”, an injured person attested.
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Cavusoglu also announced that his country will resume its airstrikes against IS targets in Syria, months after they were suspended amid a major row with Moscow.
Turkey had temporarily suspended its limited participation in the airstrikes campaign by the USA -led coalition, following soured relations with Moscow after Turkish air force jets downed a Russian warplane on the Syrian border in November.
He added that “since Daesh is our common enemy, it would be good if Russian Federation would. target its operations against Daesh”, using an Arabic acronym for IS. “I bought potatoes, tomatoes, and chicken, and I’ll ask my wife to make us grilled chicken with potatoes tonight”, he said, smiling.
The monitor said another six people were also killed but it had not yet confirmed how many of them were civilians or IS jihadists.
Russian Federation also carried out raids further east on the Islamic State group bastion of Raqa that a monitor said killed 24 civilians and wounding 70 more.
Russian Federation said the raids destroyed a “chemical weapons factory” on Raqqa’s outskirts as well as a weapons storage facility and ISIL training camp to the north and southeast.
As the fighting between Syrian rebel forces and Assad’s military continues, sources from within the country are reporting that risky chemical weapons have been used over the past few days in Aleppo.
Russian Federation says it will temporarily cease military operations in the Syrian city of Aleppo for three hours starting Thursday to allow humanitarian aid to get in, but media reports say fighting continues.
Hamza Khatib, the manager of Al-Quds hospital in Aleppo, told a Reuters photographer the hospital had recorded four deaths from gas poisoning and 55 injuries.
Wissam Zarqa, a local resident, described gasping for breath and cowering with his family on the top floors of their apartment building as a gas filled the hallway.
A Syrian military official denied the allegations, saying they were fabricated by the militants.
Syria has been repeatedly accused of using chlorine in attacks in the three years since it agreed to dismantle its chemical-weapons program and turned over the last of its stockpiles in 2014.
While commending Russia’s willingness to consider a three-hour pause in military action in Aleppo, the US supports the U.N.’s call for a long-term cease-fire.
But rebels and regime forces clashed in southern Aleppo, including during the period when the pause was meant to take hold, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A senior United Nations humanitarian official, Jan Egeland, said the Russian offer of a daily truce “is really nothing”.
The UN has called for urgent aid access to Aleppo and 48-hour weekly pauses for aid deliveries, warning that civilians are at grave risk from water shortages and disease as fighting has intensified.
The official said the U.S. government is working with the United Nations and engaging with Russian Federation to find a diplomatic approach to reducing the violence and allowing humanitarian assistance into the city.
“This attack in Aleppo is yet another flagrant violation of global 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.
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At least four people are dead after a suspected chlorine gas attack on the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo.
