28 Mar 2024
Friday 28 October 2016 - 18:50
Story Code : 236766

Militant shelling kills at least 15 civilians in western Aleppo

At least 15 civilians are killed and some 100 others injured as foreign-backedmilitants shellwesternAleppo after launching a massive offensive to break the Syrian government's siege over the city.

AUK-based monitoring group sympathetic to the militantssaidhundreds of shells and rockets had fallenon various westernneighborhoods of the city on Friday.

Militant groups involved in the attackinclude Turkey-backed FSA and Jaish al-Fatah, an allianceof terrorist factions actively supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, they told news agencies.

A senior militant saidit was going tobe "a big battle" with all the groups there participating.

The attack appeared to have been mostly launched by militants from outside the city against government forces thathold its western districts, Reuters news agency reported.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rightsaid militants had setoff several car bombs on the western edge of Aleppo after launching grad rockets at the city's Nairab airbase.

Heavy militant bombardment, with more than 150 rockets andshells, struck districts on the southwest of the city, it said.

The Syrian military said a militant attack in thatarea had been thwarted and the army haddestroyed four car bombs.

The massive assault by foreign-backed militants comes in the wake of a unilateral "humanitarian pause" declared by Syria and Russia in the city.

On Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry said aircraft hadnot carried out any sorties over Aleppo for the past nine days. There wereno immediate indication on Friday whether the airstrikes had resumed.

Militants used a US-Russian ceasefire to break the siege in early August, opening up a new route into the city from the south, but government forces quickly closed it.

The new civilian deaths came after at least six children were killed and over a dozen people injured afterTakfiri terrorists launched rocket attacks on a school as well as a house in Aleppo.

By Press TV
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