BEIRUT: The Latest on the developments in the Syrian civil war, a day after Russia used a base in Iran to launch airstrikes in the Arab country (all times local):

11:20

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

This update has been corrected to say 20 civilians were reported killed on Tuesday, not Friday.

11 a.m.

The speaker of Iran's parliament is stressing that Russia does not have a permanent military base within the Islamic Republic, a day after Moscow announced launching airstrikes on Syria from Iran.

The comments by Ali Larijani, reported on Wednesday by the state-run IRNA news agency, seem geared at easing domestic concerns over the strikes. Iran's constitution, ratified after its 1979 Islamic Revolution, bars foreign militaries from having bases within the country.

Larijani did not directly discuss the strikes in his comments.

Russia's Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that it launched the strikes from near the Iranian city of Hamedan and struck targets in three provinces in northern and eastern Syria.

The announcement from Russia marks the first significant stationing of its troops there since World War II.