Dozens killed in fighting in Syria’s Aleppo
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Syrian emergency personnel extinguish the smoldering facade of a hospital after rockets fired by foreign-backed terrorists hit the facility in the neighborhood of Muhafaza in the northern city of Aleppo, May 3, 2016. (Photo by AFP)
Dozens of people have been killed in fierce clashes between Syrian forces and foreign-backed terrorists in war-hit Syria’s second-largest city of Aleppo.
Various sources give conflicting figures of the number of casualties from both sides in the clashes that began early on Tuesday and were still going on in western Aleppo on Wednesday.
The militants initially advanced from the western suburbs of the city into government-held neighborhoods but were repelled by Wednesday morning, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said the fighting was “the most violent in Aleppo in over a year.”
On Wednesday morning, a rocket fired by the militants killed three civilians and wounded another in a government-held area in Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported.
Diplomatic efforts are underway to halt the rising violence in the city, which has killed some 300 people since April 22.
The US and Russia are working together to include Aleppo in a so-called “regime of silence” — a freeze in fighting — aimed at reinforcing a broader ceasefire in place since February 27.
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