Children among 20 killed as air strikes hit Syria hospital

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At least 20 people, including two doctors and three children, were killed when a series of air strikes hit a hospital and nearby buildings in the rebel-held part of Syria's contested city of Aleppo overnight. The attack came as the UN envoy for Syria appealed to the US and Russia to help revive the Syrian peace talks and a ceasefire he said "hangs by a thread". The chief Syrian opposition negotiator, Mohammed Alloush, blamed the government of President Bashar Assad for the deadly air strikes on Aleppo. He told the Associated Press that the latest violence by government forces shows "the environment is not conducive to any political action". The strikes hit shortly before midnight on Wednesday, according to opposition activists and rescue workers. They struck a well-known field hospital in the rebel-held district of al-Sukkari in Aleppo. The dead included one of the few paediatricians remaining in the city's opposition-held areas and a dentist, activists said. The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 20 people were killed, including three children, and that the hospital was completely destroyed. The Syrian Civil Defence, a volunteer...