At least 15 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of airstrikes today (June 8, 2016) on rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo, according to the BBC website.
One of the airstrikes -- believed to have been carried out by government forces to regain control of the divided city -- hit the Bayan hospital in the eastern Shaar district. Video footage showed bodies being pulled from burning and destroyed buildings.
In a defiant address to Syria's parliament yesterday, President Bashar al-Assad promised to escalate fighting in order to retake "every inch" of the country that his opponents have seized during Syria's civil war, now in its fifth year.
Aleppo, Assad told parliament, would be "the graveyard where hopes and dreams" of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- a key backer of the rebels in Syria -- would be "buried."
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