WorldBEIRUT, REUTERS -Syria's army said on Monday the Nusra Front and what the army called other terrorist groups had killed 84 people, mostly women and children, in Aleppo during the past three days, in a bombardment that included chemical weapons and rocket fire. It is one of the main rebel groups taking part in an offensive against government-held western Aleppo that began on Friday. Syrian state media reported on Sunday that militants had fired poison gas at the Hamdaniya district of government-held western Aleppo. Damascus refers to all the rebel groups fighting it as terrorists. The insurgent offensive against government-held western Aleppo comes more than a month into an operation by the army to retake the city's rebel-held eastern districts, which it had already put under siege.

Source: Sunday Times October 31, 2016 14:14 UTC