Russia says its strike in Syria killed 30 al-Qaida fighters

Rescuer Ibrahim al-Haj said the airstrikes killed the boy’s mother.

Airstrikes have resumed in Aleppo since Tuesday, after a Russian-sponsored three-week moratorium ended.

The White Helmets have released dramatic footage a six-year-old child being pulled out of rubble in east Aleppo amid renewed Syrian regime and Russian bombardment.

Air strikes and shelling killed at least 25 people in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Thursday on a third day of renewed bombing, according to a group that monitors Syria’s civil war, and the mayor of the besieged sector warned of an acute lack of fuel and food as winter encroaches.

Aleppo has been ravaged by some of the worst violence of the five-year war, which has displaced more than half the county’s population and killed more than 300,000 people.

It came as President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview that USA president-elect Donald Trump could be a “natural ally” if he fights “terrorists”.

Russian Federation has been carrying out airstrikes on Syria since September 2015 at the request of Syrian President Bashar Assad. It also could hasten the fall of their remaining strongholds across the country. The young patients and their parents cowered alongside in one of the few hospitals still operating in rebel-held parts of Aleppo. Activists said they counted about 50 artillery rounds and airstrikes since the morning hours. “The planes are up above”.

“We will try to get out when the airstrikes leave our sky. Me and my staff and all the patients are sitting in one room in the basement right now, trying to protect our patients”, Hatem said earlier in a statement.

FILE – In this October 11, 2016 file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, residents sit amongst rubble in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, Syria.

The managing director of the blood bank, Ahmad Eid, said the damage was mainly to the facility’s exterior and reception area. “We believe it’s a violation of worldwide law”.

There are only five functioning trauma facilities left in eastern Aleppo, Sahloul told the Associated Press news agency.

“The situation is very, very hard”, he said.

Activists supported the resumption of government air strikes, by state media of big troop deployments on several fronts ahead of a significant ground offensive amid reports.

Assad told Portugal’s RTP TV that Trump could be a “natural ally” to his government, but said he was dubious Trump could influence all the decision-makers to change the USA strategy.

The 1.2 million civilians living in government-held areas have come under repeated rocket fire by the rebels.

He said three leading members of the al-Qaida-linked Fatah al-Sham Front – Muhammad Helala, Abu Jaber Harmuja and Abul Baha al-Asfari – were among those killed.

Syria’s opposition-held city of Aleppo has been pounded by intense airstrikes carried out by both Russian Federation and the Assad regime for the past 24 hours, local civil defense sources said Wednesday.

The Observatory said districts struck included al-Shaar, al-Sukkari, al-Sakhour and Karam al-Beik.

He said Secretary of State John Kerry was continuing to work “doggedly” to try to bring the warring factions together to end the crisis, but admitted it had achieved little thus far.