Two children were killed and dozens more wounded Thursday in air strikes on Syrian camps for the displaced probably carried out by Russian warplanes, a monitor said.
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At least seven people were killed and 20 others suffered suffocation and breathing difficulties from chemical gas attack in Aleppo, state news agency SANA said on Wednesday, citing a Russian observation centre.
This photo provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), shows Syrian citizens inspecting damaged shops after airstrikes hit a market in Atareb, west of the divided city of Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Aug 2, 2016.
Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran’s parliament, urged the U.N.to help in letting those people get out of Aleppo’s rebel-held areas through already identified crossing points.
Meanwhile, Syrian regime forces bolstered by Russian air strikes have recaptured territory in the battleground city of Aleppo, rolling back the short-lived gains of a rebel offensive.
Aleppo has witnessed fierce fighting recently. An estimated 300,000 civilians, a third of them children, are trapped there along with rebel fighters. Clashes have been ongoing south of Aleppo since Sunday, when rebels started their counter offensive.
The groups waging the offensive – including fighters from Al-Qaeda’s former Syria affiliate and the powerful Islamist Ahrar al-Sham – have promised to end the government encirclement of eastern parts of Aleppo.
But the two world powers have agreed “concrete steps” to revive a tattered ceasefire and tackle jihadist groups in Syria, although details have not been made public.
“Since June, we’ve seen increasing reports of attacks on civilians in Aleppo and strikes on the region’s remaining medical infrastructure”, the group’s director of programmes Widney Brown said in a statement. Another attack took place in Aleppo, killing five and injuring eight.
There has not been any independent confirmation of Tuesday’s incident, but Assad’s forces have also been accused of deploying chemical weapons elsewhere in Syria.
Rebels of the Syrian opposition initiated the offensive by carrying out two auto bomb attacks on regime checkpoints at the entrance of the artillery base in Aleppo, and then launched dozens of mortar shells targeting Syrian army headquarters inside the base.
CNN has spoken with a doctor in Saraqeb who said he treated some of those affected by the alleged attack.
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A watchdog voiced concerns meanwhile over reports of a chlorine gas attack on Tuesday in nearby Saraqeb, close to where Russian Federation said one of its helicopters was shot down the day before, killing the five people on board.
