Rockets kill 6 civilians in Syria’s Aleppo: state media 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseRockets fired by jihadists Sunday killed six civilians and wounded eight others in the government-held northern city of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported. Fighters of Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) are deployed in the neighbouring province of Idlib and nearby regions including the western Aleppo countryside. Government forces have retaken all areas once held by the rebels except for Idlib province and parts of the neighbouring provinces of Hama, Aleppo and Latakia. Syria’s war has killed more than 370,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests.

Source: Manila Bulletin July 14, 2019 17:26 UTC