A Syrian boy is found alive after the renewed Russian airstrikes on the rebel-held Fardous district of Aleppo. Survivors covered in dust were laid out on the street alongside their dead brothers and sisters THAER MOHAMMED/GETTY IMAGESMore than half of those killed in the renewed bombings by Russian and Assad regime warplanes in Aleppo have been civilians, according to an authoritative study. Moscow and Damascus have used “bunker buster” and barrel bombs as they try to force eastern Aleppo into submission, according to IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre, killing hundreds of civilians since August. The high proportion of civilian casualties — most recently in a series of strikes on vegetable markets in residential neighbourhoods in the past two days — will be further ammunition in the propaganda war that has broken out between the West and Russia.…

Source: The Times October 12, 2016 23:04 UTC