Aleppo’s Armenian district comes under rocket attack

PanARMENIAN.Net - A block in Syrian Aleppo's Nor Kyugh district, where Zavarian Armenian National College is situated, came under a rocket attack, Aleppo-based Kantsasar newspaper said in a Facebook post.

The shelling caused material damages, with a Syrian-Armenian getting minor injuries.

After the key road connecting Aleppo with the outer world was liberated, the situation has notably improved: food prices have fallen, in particular.

At least 120,000 people have been displaced in Syria in October because of fighting, according to UN humanitarian officials.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the people fled their homes in the Aleppo, Hama and Idlib governorates between October 5 and October 22.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that most remain in the three governorates but some have fled to camps near the Turkish border. He said most people in Aleppo moved toward villages and towns in the countryside west of the city.

Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that four years on has grown to a stalemate, with the Assad government, Islamic State, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.

More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and a million injured. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.

Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the U.S., UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran have pro-Assad forces on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes.