Russia confirms female medic killed in Syria's Aleppo hospital shelling

A Russian medical servicewoman was killed and two other medical workers were seriously wounded in a shelling of a mobile hospital in Syria's Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday.

The so-called "moderate opposition" was behind the shelling, the ministry's spokesman Maj. Gen Igor Konashenkov said.

He also criticized "sponsors of terrorists," which he referred to as the United States, Britain, France and some other countries that sympathized with the Syrian militants.

The rebels captured eastern Aleppo in 2012. The Syrian government forces and allied fighters recently launched a broad military campaign to end the rebel presence in Aleppo city.

So far, the government forces reportedly have fully controlled the northern part of rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo and are advancing in the southern part. Endi