Dramatic rescue of baby after his home is hit by air strikes - PHOTO+VIDEO

The video was reportedly shot today in the Bab al Nairab district of Aleppo, where Syrian forces dropped barrel bombs from helicopters killing 10 people.As the dirt-covered and bloodstained frame of the boy is hauled to safety by civil defence workers, a man shouts in Arabic: 'Rescuing baby from under rubble in Bab Al Nairab, God is the greatest.' The amateur footage, which emerged tonight on social media sites and news outlets, has not been independently verified.But it came after barrel bombings today in the same district, which killed at least 10 people including four children and two women.Activists said many others in the historic Bab Al Nairab district, once home to one of the main gates to ancient Aleppo in the 1200s, were buried under the rubble of buildings.The civil war in Syria is now in its fourth year, killing more than 170,000 people and continuing even after international attention has shifted to conflicts in Gaza and Iraq. It began after a peaceful street uprising against four decades of rule by the Assad family in March 2011.But it spiralled into an armed insurgency when the army responded with massive and deadly force to suppress the unrest.There has been renewed concern from the international community after Islamic State extremists took over huge parts of the north and east of the country.There militants have declared a Caliphate where residents must follow an extreme form of Sunni Islam - and where their enemies' decapitated heads are displayed in public squares.(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az