Syrian regime resumes air raids on Aleppo as Russians blast provinces
Beirut — Syrian government air strikes and barrel bomb attacks hit suburbs in the rebel-held east of Aleppo on Tuesday. Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, said these were the first air attacks on the city since October 18. An AFP photographer said the Sakhur and Masakan Hanano neighbourhoods were hit. The raids came as Moscow said jets taking off from the Russian Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean launched their first strikes in Syria, in Idlib and Homs provinces. The bombing of east Aleppo ended a relatively quiet spell for more than 250,000 people in the besieged side of the city. Moscow said on October 18 it was halting air strikes in Aleppo before a short-lived truce. Syrian strikes on the rebel east also subsided, with bombing kept mostly to scenes of fighting on the city outskirts. The respite came after global criticism of a ferocious assault launched by Syrian and Russian forces on September 22 to reca...
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