Air strikes across Syria, rebels attempt to shoot down helicopters

Medical supplies are running short and only a small team of exhausted Syrian medics are left inside the embattled eastern city, MSF coordinator Patrick Wieland said.
Wieland, who visited the area, said there was now only one makeshift hospital with four doctors in city, which sits near the Iraqi border and was once home to around 600,000 people.
An MSF team unofficially visited Deir al-Zor province but said conditions were too dangerous for them to enter the main city with the same name. The team visited public and private hospitals around the city and said the premises were inundated with wounded, some of them with hundreds of patients.
'Despite support from a Syrian doctors' organization, medical supplies are almost impossible to get hold of, and aerial bombardments and sniper fire make evacuating patients by stretcher extremely difficult,' the MSF report said.
'The health system is being targeted, and medical supplies, including drugs and blood products, are running out, while the number of wounded continues to increase.'
The startling reports of the state of medical care comes as The Times newspaper reports Syrian survivors in Aleppo are being starved as part of Assad's desperate bid to weaken the rebels and cling to power.
The city has no electricity since the lines were cut 25 days ago, leaving civilians with hardly any fuel, running water and no working phone lines.
The lack of power means flower mills can no longer provide the city with enough flour and the daily production of bread has fallen by 70 per cent in the majority of the large bakeries.
This has caused food prices in Aleppo to rocket by 75 per cent in just over a month with a loaf of bread increasing in price by an astonishing 1300 per cent. Wages have also plummeted and many are out of work.