Six people were confirmed killed in Hama, Syria, due to bombardments by Islamist rebel groups, as the Syrian government battles to repel them from Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the extremist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham used rocket launchers for the first time in this attack. The UN Security Council is set to convene to discuss the ongoing crisis, which has seen significant territorial losses for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, including the recent fall of Aleppo to rebel control.