ALEPPO, Syria: Fresh fighting hit Syria’s Aleppo on Thursday, the first day of a promised Russian aid window the UN said was insufficient to bring relief for the city’s desperate residents.

Even as Moscow pledged to pause strikes around Syria’s second city, it carried out raids further east on the Islamic State group bastion of Raqa. A monitor said 24 civilians were killed.

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