ALEPPO, Syria: Russian and Syrian warplanes pounded rebel-held areas of divided second city Aleppo on Saturday as government forces closed in on the rebels' sole remaining supply line, a monitoring group said.

An Agence France-Presse correspondent in the rebel-held east of the city said the air strikes lasted throughout the night into the morning.

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