15 killed in barrel bomb attack in Aleppo

In Syria, fifteen people have been killed in a barrel bomb attack on a rebel-held area in the city of Aleppo.

The strikes hit “near a tent where people were receiving condolences for those killed this week in the neighbouring district of Bab al-Nayrab”, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.

“Two children lament the death of their brother who passed after a barrel bombing on the Neirab neighborhood on Thursday”, the Aleppo Media Center said in a tweet describing the video. “They were about to enter the shelter when they were hit with another round of barrel bombs, and they all dropped to the floor”, said al-Hajj.

Graphic content / A Syrian rescue worker evacuates a dead baby and a wounded child as civilians search for victims in the Maadi district of eastern Aleppo after regime aircrafts reportedly dropped explosive-packed barrel bombs on August 27, 2016. The UK-based monitoring group said in addition to 11 children, four women were killed at Bab al-Nayrab neighborhood. It showed a boy, Omran Daqneesh – no older than five years old – bloodied and covered with dusk, sitting silently in an ambulance awaiting help after his family’s house was destroyed by an airstrike.

Activists posted videos of the Aleppo barrel bomb attack online.

The tragic aftermath of the strike also shows the images, that are too graphic to publish, with parents and relatives digging the rubble to find and pull out their love ones..

The video was shot on Wednesday in the rebel-held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of the city.

According to Abu Leith, women and children were among the fatalities.

They say the shelling has prevented many from leaving, and turned Aleppo into a besieged city again.

The Turkish-backed Nour el-din el-Zinki rebel group said fighters, backed by Turkish tanks, advanced Saturday on the village of Youssef Beik that lies southwest of Jarablus, seizing it from Kurdish-affiliated forces.

She touches his face and closes his eyes.

As stories of death and destruction continued to emerge Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry met in Geneva on Friday to discuss Syria.

Under the deal, some 700 gunmen were allowed to leave with their families to the northern rebel-controlled Idlib province.

The conflict in Syria, which is complicated by USA and Russian support for opposite sides has killed more than 290,000 people and had forced millions from their homes in more than five years.

It adds complexity to the Syrian conflict that erupted five years ago with an uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has since drawn in regional states and world powers.

Amnesty International says barrel bombs are a common tactic the Syrian regime used to kill indiscriminately to create “sheer terror and unbearable suffering”.