Saturday, 23 April 2016

Syria Conflict: 25 Civilians Killed As Air Strikes Pound Aleppo

Aleppo: Air strikes launched by the Syrian government have killed several civilians and injured dozens in the northern city of Aleppo as the ceasefire between the government and opposition groups crumbles.

At least 25 people were killed across Aleppo and several dozen injured in the attacks. The strikes targeted four different, predominantly civilian areas in the city.
At least 30 civilians were injured in the Bustan al-Qasr area alone. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, government air strikes also targeted towns across Syria’s Idlib province, killing at least three civilians. Aleppo’s streets mostly emptied following the attacks, with people rushing home to avoid being in open spaces.
Elsewhere in Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group claimed to have downed a plane of the government forces in the countryside of Damascus and captured its pilot. However, citing a Syrian military source, Russian news agency Interfax said the plane, a Mig-23, belonged to the Syrian Air Force and crashed because of a technical fault.
The Syrian conflict started as a largely unarmed uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011, but has since morphed into a full-on civil war that has claimed the lives of more than 260,000 people, according to the UN statistics.
The already shaky ceasefire between the government and some rebels was severely strained on Tuesday when at least 44 people were killed in air strikes on two markets in the northwest.

The Geneva talks are aimed at ending the five-year war by fashioning a political transition, writing a new constitution, and holding fresh elections by September 2017.

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