Warplanes bomb children's hospital as Assad renews Aleppo offensiveAMMAR ABDULLAH/FILE Airstrikes are continuing to pummel Aleppo and the surrounding towns. Airstrikes hammered rebel-held zones in Syria's besieged Aleppo Wednesday (Thursday NZ time), badly damaging a children's hospital as staff members and patients huddled in a basement, doctors said. Syrian forces, meanwhile, launched heavy bombardment in rebel-controlled eastern Aleppo in an attempt to break one of the last urban strongholds of the opposition. Speaking from the basement of the children's hospital, its director - who identified himself only as Hatem - said his staff were trapped. The Independent Doctors Association, a nonprofit group, said the children's hospital had been badly damaged.

Source: Stuff November 16, 2016 14:43 UTC