“Fifteen civilians, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attackon the Bab al-Nayrab neighbourhood” in the south of Aleppo, the monitor said.
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Russia, which backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, has endorsed the plan.
The Jarablus Military Council says the airstrikes Saturday on their bases in Amarneh village marked an “unprecedented and risky escalation” and came after Turkish artillery shelled the positions the day before. Jan Egeland, who chairs the United Nations task force, reportedly said getting the go-ahead from all sides “has taken more time frankly than I thought was needed”.
Elsewhere in Syria, another group of residents was evacuated from the Damascus suburb of Daraya, part of a deal struck between Syrian rebels and the government following a grueling bombing campaign and four-year siege.
Luring rescue workers to scenes of carnage caused by barrel bombs and then dropping a second on them, he says, has become a standard trick of the Assad regime and its Russian allies.
Meanwhile, a ceasefire has been agreed in the town of Daraya, allowing 700 rebel gunmen safe passage to the northern province of Idlib and allowing 4,000 women and children to escape to shelters outside the town.
State TV said on Saturday that Daraya was clear of gunmen, and under the control of the Syrian army.
Aleppo has been ravaged by the conflict that began with anti-government protests in March 2011.
Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in northern Syria on Saturday, as Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by saying it had launched air strikes against both Kurdish forces and Islamic State. However, the leader of one Turkey-backed rebel group gave a rival account.
The Jarablus Military Council, supported by the US -backed and Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces, said the airstrikes on their bases in the village of Amarneh marked an “unprecedented and unsafe escalation”. Turkey has said in the past, however, that the Kurds must withdraw to the east of the nearby Euphrates River.
The Jarablus Military Council says the airstrikes Saturday on their bases in Amarneh village marked an “unprecedented and risky escalation” and came after Turkish artillery shelled the positions the day before.
The Jarablus Military Council was set up with the stated aim of capturing the Islamic State-held town.
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The conflict in Syria, which is complicated by USA and Russian support for opposite sides has killed more than 290,000 people and had forced millions from their homes in more than five years. It seized control of Jarablus from Islamic State seeking to stop any Kurdish forces moving in first.
