Four civilians killed in militant shelling of university dormitories in Aleppo
In this picture taken from the northern Syrian village of Ariha, smoke billows from the site of clashes and mutual shelling between Syrian opposition factions and regime forces on the frontlines on the outskirts of the city of Saraqib in Syria’s Alep
Four civilians, including two students, were killed on Friday in the Syrian city of Aleppo after insurgents shelled university student dormitories, according to the state news agency SANA.
More than 240 people, mostly combatants, were killed as intense fighting approached Syria’s northern Aleppo city after militants launched a major offensive on government-held areas this week, a monitor said Friday, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.Rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham launched an incursion on Wednesday into a dozen towns and villages in the northwestern province of Aleppo, which is controlled by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government forces.
“The combatants’ death toll in the ongoing... operation in the Idlib and Aleppo countrysides has risen to 218,” since Wednesday, said the British-based monitor with a network of sources inside Syria.
In addition to the fighters, it said 24 civilians were killed.
Syrian ally Russia launched air strikes that killed 19 civilians on Thursday, while another civilian had been killed in Syrian army shelling a day earlier, said the Observatory which on Thursday had reported an overall toll of about 200 dead, including the civilians.
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