Doha: Al Jazeera journalist Ibrahim Al Umer was yesterday killed along with 16 others in Russian air strikes, Al Jazeera website announced yesterday.
Al Umer was collaborating with Al Jazeera Mubasher and killed during Russian air strikes against the town of Turmanin near Idlib in northern Syria.
An Al Jazeera team was also targeted when members were on way to cover strikes in Huraytan and Anadan in the countryside of Aleppo.
The Russian bombing killed 13 people in the fuel market in Turmanin and three in the town of Ahsm in the countryside of Idlib.
Meanwhile, Rebels attacked government positions in the historic centre of Aleppo in response to an offensive that cut a road leading into the opposition-held sector of the city, monitors and insurgents said.
The shelling of government-held neighbourhoods and street fighting came days after the advance by the government side towards the Castello Road.
Rebels have relied on the road for supply runs and access to Aleppo through much of the civil war, and its severing effectively put opposition-held areas where some 250,000 people live under siege.
The Syrian military said in a statementy that it would extend a nationwide ceasefire for another 72 hours from 1am today.
The Peninsula & Reuters
