Terrorist shelling kills at least 130 civilians in Syria’s Aleppo

At least 130 civilians have been killed in recent rocket attacks carried out by foreign-backed terrorists in Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo, a monitoring group says.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday that the deadly attacks targeted government-held areas of the embattled city since July 31.

The group’s head, Rami Abdel Rahman, said at least seven civilians were killed in terrorist shelling of the government-controlled neighborhood of Hamdaniyah.

The UK-based monitoring group also said that more than 500 terrorists and government forces were killed in one week of fierce fighting to control the strategic city of Aleppo.

The group could not give a specific toll, but said the majority of those killed since Sunday were terrorists who died in airstrikes carried out by the Syrian and Russian air forces.

On Saturday, the Syrian army, backed by air and artillery cover, delivered a major blow to the terrorist groups after the latter launched repeated attacks on military academies to the south of Aleppo.

A military source said a large number of terrorists, who were trying to end a siege of militant-held areas, were killed and many others sustained injuries in the clashes.

Other reports said the Syrian army had repelled an attack by terrorist groups on an army artillery base in Aleppo, inflicting heavy casualties on the terrorists.

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