UN Security Council condemns attack in Aleppo

The United Nations Security Council last night condemned what it described as "terrorist attacks" in the Syrian city of Aleppo earlier this week, causing dozens of deaths and leaving more than a hundred civilians injured. The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Aleppo, Syria on 3 October, causing dozens of deaths and over one hundred civilians injured, responsibility for which was claimed by the Jebhat al-Nusra group affiliated with al Qaeda," the 15-nation council said in a statement. According to media reports, at least two car bombs exploded on Wednesday in Aleppo’s main Saadallah al-Jabiri Square and another bomb exploded a few hundred metres away, killing at least 48 people.