Rockets kill 11 in Syria's Aleppo: State media

Rockets fired by jihadists on Sunday killed at least 11 people in the Syrian city of Aleppo held by President Bashar al-Assad's regime, state news agency SANA reported.

Aleppo sits in the north of the country next to Idlib, a province dominated by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

Since the regime regained control of Aleppo at the end of 2016, the city has been targeted intermittently by jihadists and rebel fighters.

SANA said the rockets fired by "terrorist groups" killed 11 "martyrs" and wounded 11 civilians in neighbourhoods of Aleppo, using terminology reserved for both jihadists and rebels.

The news agency originally reported that six civilians were among the dead, but its latest update did not give a breakdown.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the rockets were fired by jihadist groups, notably HTS.

It said 20 rockets were fired into several neighbourhoods of Aleppo, and put the toll at three dead civilians, ..