At least 12 people have been killed in rocket attacks by foreign-sponsored militants against residential areas in Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo.
According to a source at Aleppo's Police Command on Sunday, the terrorists positioned in the Salaheddin neighborhood of Aleppo targeted the residential district of al-Aazamiya with rocket shells, killing at least eight people and injuring 15 others, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported.
The shells caused heavy material damage to the public and private property in the area, the source explained.
A source at Aleppo Health Directorate also said that the injured civilians, mostly children and women, were taken to al-Jamia’a and al-Razi hospitals.
In another rocket attack on the al-Jamiliyeh neighborhood in the city by the terrorists, at least four more civilians were killed and a number of others sustained injuries.
Once an industrial powerhouse, Aleppo is now split between the government forces and foreign-backed militants with the former in control of the western part and the latter controlling the east of the city.
People in cities across the Middle Eastern country have frequently been targeted by bomb attacks as well as mortar and rocket fire by foreign-backed militants .
On May 26, at least three civilians lost their lives and 19 others sustained injuries when a number of mortar shells by militants landed in the Minshiyeh and Abbareh neighborhoods as well as the Public Park in Aleppo.
The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been struggling to rein in the foreign-backed terrorists committing ghastly acts of violence.
Rape, sex slavery, execution, vandalism, to name only a few, are among the crimes committed by the militants nurtured by mainly the US and its regional allies including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The Syrian crisis has claimed the lives of 222,000 people so far, according to the UK-based monitoring group, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
