Syrian government forces have encircled the eastern half of Aleppo, besieging tens of thousands of people and pounding the territory with airstrikes on daily basis. A view taken with a drone shows the minaret of Osama Bin Zayed mosque along with damaged buildings in the old city of Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Friday reported dozens of overnight airstrikes on eastern Aleppo. The Aleppo Media Center, an activist collective, said the airstrikes killed and wounded a number of people, with some buried under the debris. The Observatory said Wednesday that at least 358 civilians had been killed in eastern Aleppo since the U.S. and Russian-brokered truce collapsed on Sept. 19.

Source: CBC News October 14, 2016 13:41 UTC