Aleppo back under air attack as UN warns of missing civilians
Activist group says bombs have begun falling again in rebel areas, hours after Russia announced humanitarian pause
Syria's government resumed air strikes on remaining rebel-held territory in east Aleppo on Friday, a day after ally Moscow announced a "pause" in the assault, an activist group said.
The apparent resumption came hours after Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Syria's army was halting its three-week operation to recapture east Aleppo in order to allow the evacuation of civilians.
In the hours after the announcement, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and an AFP correspondent in east Aleppo said air strikes had halted, through heavy artillery fire continued.
But on Friday afternoon, the Observatory said the government's air raids had resumed, targeting several of the few districts in the east still held by the rebels.
There were no immediate details of casualties.
Lavrov on Friday specified that military activities in the Aleppo region were halted on 8 December only for a specific period of time in order to allow civilians to leave the city.
"I never said that military activities have been stopped completely. I just said that they were halted yesterday for a specific period of time in order to provide civilians with an opportunity to leave," Lavrov said, according to TASS.
"After these humanitarian pauses, military operations will go on until eastern Aleppo is liberated from militants."
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The Battle of Aleppo is the big story over there now and now, the bombing continues after a brief ceasefire for civilians to leave.
