Clinic In Syria Hit By Another Airstrike

A Syrian clinic has been hit by an airstrike, the second time this week a medical facility has been struck, officials said.

The strike on the Al-Marja neighbourhood of rebel-held Aleppo wounded several people, the civil defence, known as the White Helmets, said.

Several other strikes appeared to target mosques in rebel-held areas.

At least one child died and five people were injured in the strikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

In separate attacks, insurgents killed at least 15 worshippers as they left Friday prayers.

Another 30 are thought to be injured after rockets struck Malla Khan mosque, according to Syrian state TV.

Earlier this week, the Al-Quds hospital and nearby flats were hit in rebel-held Sukkari neighbourhood.

The death toll from that bombing has since risen to 50 people, including six medical staff and patients, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders has claimed.

The head of the organisation's Syria mission said "the city, consistently at the frontlines of this brutal war, is now in danger of coming under a full offensive, no corner is being spared."

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned that targeting medical facilities could "amount to war crimes."

Overall, airstrikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo have killed more than 200 civilians over the last week.

The strikes come as the UN called on the US and Russia to salvage the "barely alive" two-month truce.

Russian state media said the "regime of silence", agreed by Russia and the US, will apply for 24 hours in Damascus and Aleppo and 72 hours in Latakia.

But the Syrian army declared that a temporary truce would affect Damascus and Latakia - but not in Aleppo.

The ceasefire brokered by the US and Russia in February has been crumbling, as casualty figures from government and opposition violence escalates.