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Warplanes mount new strikes on rebel-held Aleppo

Residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo said it faced the most ferocious bombardment of the war on Friday

Reuters September 24, 2016

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Warplanes mounted a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Saturday, rebel sources, a rescue worker and a war monitor reported, pressing a major offensive by the Russian-backed Syrian military.

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Speaking to Reuters from Aleppo, Ammar al Selmo, the head of Civil Defence in the opposition-held east, said: "Unfortunately it continues. There are planes in the sky now."

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Director Rami Abdulrahman told Reuters: "The raids are intense and continuous."

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Residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo said it faced the most ferocious bombardment of the war on Friday, after the military declared a new offensive to take back full control of the divided city. Selmo said the death toll was now over 100.

The Observatory said its death toll was 47.

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Bunny Rabbit | 8 years ago | Reply Asad reminds me of a certain Saddam Hussein of Iraq . Both were single powers fighting the entire world on their own without any allies .

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