Syrian Rebels In Aleppo Launch Offensive To Break The Siege

Al Jazeera: Syrian rebels launch Aleppo counterattack

Heavy shelling takes place in government-held areas while shelling of a school kills several children.

Syrian rebels staged a counterattack in Aleppo with heavy shelling of government-held areas after a weeks-long Russian-backed offensive against besieged districts held by rebels.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a British-based monitoring group, said rebel shelling had killed more than 15 civilians and wounded 100 others in government-held western Aleppo on Friday.

The SOHR added that hundreds of shells and rockets had fallen on various western neighbourhoods of the city as the rebels aimed to break a siege that government and allied militias imposed in the summer with aerial support from Russia.

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