Six killed in Syria rebel attack

Six people were killed and 16 wounded Thursday in a rocket attack on a district in Syria's northern province of Aleppo, Xinhua reported citing state-run SANA news agency.

SANA said the rockets, fired by "terrorists", landed near the Mosque of Bilal in Aleppo's Azamieh district.

The report gave no further details.

The escalating conflict between the rebels and government troops is going on amid international efforts to hold a conference on Syria in Geneva by mid-November.

The clashes are continuing even as international chemical experts are conducting their mission in Syria to oversee the destruction of the country's chemical weapons arsenal.

Ahmet Uzumcu, the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), had called for a "temporary ceasefire" in Syria to permit the chemical weapons experts to carry out their work quickly.