BEIRUT: Syria's state-run news agency says seven civilians have been killed and nine wounded by rocket rounds fired by armed groups on a government-controlled district of the city of Aleppo.

SANA says the rockets struck the Salaheddine residential district in the northern city on Wednesday.

The city has been divided into a rebel-held eastern part and a government-controlled western part since 2012, and is now the focal point of the civil war.

On Friday, nearly 20 civilians were reported killed in airstrikes in eastern districts.