In Syria, government forces and their allies advanced on Aleppo after a pair of barrel bombs hit the main hospital, knocking it out of commission and shutting off essential healthcare to most of East Aleppo’s 250,000 residents. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called the attacks on medical facilities war crimes. The violence came as residents described Aleppo as a living hell, with water, fuel, medicine and electricity all in short supply. Elsewhere in Syria, an airstrike in Idlib on Thursday flattened an apartment building, where a video posted online purports to show rescue workers with the “White Helmets” volunteers digging an infant out of the rubble.

Syrian Civil Defense worker: “We have been working for two or three hours. Thank God we found her alive. She is lucky she is still alive. One month old, the baby is just one month old. Two hours of work, that is it. She is 30 days old.”

Meanwhile, Russia warned the United States not to oppose its military campaign in support of Bashar al-Assad’s forces, warning that a U.S. intervention could lead to “frightening tectonic shifts in the Middle East.”