At least nine civilians, including three children, have been injured in an attack in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo.

Several rockets hit the neighborhood of al-Ashrafiyeh in Aleppo on Saturday, police said.

The security officials added that terrorists positioned in a nearby neighborhood fired the missiles, Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported. 

Once an industrial powerhouse, Aleppo is now split between the government forces and foreign-backed militants with the former in control of the western part and the latter controlling the east of the city.

People in cities across the Middle Eastern country have frequently been targeted by bomb attacks as well as mortar and rocket fire by foreign-backed militants.

The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been struggling to rein in the foreign-backed terrorists committing ghastly acts of violence.

Rape, sex slavery, execution, vandalism, to name only a few, are among the crimes committed by the militants nurtured by mainly the US and its regional allies including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The Syrian crisis has claimed the lives of 222,000 people so far, according to the UK-based monitoring group, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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