Drone video footage uploaded on social media on Sunday by the Aleppo Media Center (AMC) appears to show destroyed buildings and rubble on the streets in Al-Shaar neighbourhood in eastern Aleppo, Syria.
Warplanes hit several areas of Aleppo’s western suburbs and countryside Nov. 12, where rebels had been trying to advance, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Meanwhile, the Observatory also reported that rebel shelling of government-held western Aleppo has killed 92 people, including 29 children, during the two-week offensive.
The city has been divided for years between the government-held west and rebel-held east.
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Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes, launched an offensive on eastern Aleppo in September. Aleppo is home to 275,000 people.
On Oct. 28, rebels counter-attacked in a bid to break the siege, targeting western districts of Aleppo in an offensive that included Islamist militants and rebels fighting under the Free Syrian Army banner. But their progress slowed after early advances.
Aleppo has become the most intense front in the war pitting forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, helped by Iran, Shi’ite militias and Russian air power, against mostly Sunni rebels groups, some backed by Turkey, the United States and Gulf monarchies.
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