Aleppo District Hit by Al-Nusra Front Fire: Russian Military


TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Al-Nusra Front militant group heavily shelled the northern parts of Syrian city of Aleppo, killing and wounding civilians and destroying buildings, Russian military said Monday.

The militants fired mortar rounds and rockets at the Burayj ar Rih neighborhood in northern Aleppo, killing and wounding civilians, Russia’s Syrian reconciliation center said early Monday.

"Nusra Front Militants fired mortars and multiple rocket launchers at the Burayj ar Rih district north of Aleppo," a member of the Russian Defense Ministry’s center in Hmeimim said, Sputnik reported. 

"The shells fired by terrorist groups at residential quarters destroyed a shopping mall, homes and administrative buildings, private buildings, killing and wounding civilians," the military official said.