LIVE BLOG: Battle for Aleppo
- More than 330 civilians killed in rebel-controlled parts of Aleppo in seven days, according to WHO
- Syria launches mass ground offensive against rebel-held areas of city
- West condemns Syrian government and Russia for alleged attack on an aid convoy
- Russia accuses the US and UK of using "unacceptable" rhetoric in UN speeches on Syria.
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(Source Reuters)
Syrian government troops on Tuesday took control of a central rebel-held district in Aleppo city, where the army is pressing an operation to retake opposition territory, a military source said.
Sources told AFP that "the army retook control of all of the Farafira district northwest of the Aleppo citadel after neutralising many terrorists. Units are now demining the area."
The Syrian army and its allies fought intense clashes with rebels in opposition-held areas of Aleppo on Tuesday, as government forces geared up for an expected ground assault following days of devastating air attacks on civilian areas.
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NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday the "morally totally unacceptable" bombardment of the Syrian city of Aleppo broke international law, while urging Russia to take genuine steps to restore a ceasefire.
"The appalling attacks on Aleppo have shaken all of us, and the violence and the attacks we have seen, also on an aid convoy, is morally totally unacceptable and is a blatant violation of international law," Stoltenberg told a news conference in Bratislava.
Aleppo hospital staff tell MEE they are overwhelmed with casaulties as medical supplies run low due to the ongoing government siege on East Aleppo.
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