The bombs continued to fall...
The fragile truce that went into effect on September 12 fell apart less than a week later after aUS-led coalition airstrike on a Syrian position killed dozens of soldiers.
The US military said Saturday's strike was targeting ISIS militants, and if it hit Syrian troops it was an accident.
But a diplomatic row between the US and Russia erupted, with Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin calling the strike "an extraordinary display of American heavy-handedness" -- and US Ambassador Samantha Power describing Russia's reaction as "a stunt replete with moralism and grandstanding."
...And the death toll continued to rise
A Syrian baby is carried from the rubble following the bombing of a building in Aleppo on Wednesday, September 21.
There was more political sniping -- and deaths -- to come. Aleppo and its surrounding areas were pummeled by regime airstrikes from Wednesday through Friday, activists with the opposition-aligned Aleppo Media Center (AMC) told CNN.
They say allied Russian forces also participated in the strikes, though Moscow has not confirmed its involvement.
A Syrian man checks the damage following an air strike in the rebel-held Ansari district in Aleppo on Thursday, September 23.
At least 70 people were killed in the attacks, according to the AMC. By Friday morning another 50 people -- including many children -- were trapped beneath the rubble, but rescue crews were unable to reach them due to ongoing strikes.
Indeed, the resumption of full-scale airstrikes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo has been constant, intense, and much worse than prior to the ceasefire, the activist added.
Not even water was safe
A destroyed ambulance pictured in the aftermath of airsrikes on eastern Aleppo.
Basic services were not spared in Thursday's airstrikes. Aleppo's main water station, which provides clean water to both regime and opposition-controlled neighborhoods, was also hit.
An ambulance and a fire truck were destroyed in the bombardment. The fire truck is one of only three trucks operating in eastern Aleppo, according to the AMC.
Three of the four centers used by volunteer search and research group Syria Civil Defense were also targeted. The group is mourning the loss of one of its workers, Khalid Al Naimi, who was killed in the strikes -- he is the third brother in his family to die while serving.
Aid was lost...
One of the main objectives of the ceasefire was to allow aid to enter besieged areas. But on Monday an airstrike destroyed a Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) convoy set to deliver food and medical supplies to some 78,000 people in eastern Aleppo. Around 250,000 people in the city are facing severe shortages as a result of a government siege.
"Just when we think it cannot get any worse, the power of depravity sinks lower," said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the strike, which destroyed 18 of the convoy's 31 trucks.
Twenty people were killed in the attack, including the Red Crescent's regional director Omar Barakat.
No party has claimed responsibility for the strike. However, the US has blamed Russia, who in turn has denied carrying out the strike.
...And food is set to expire
Rescue workers in the al-Sakhour neighborhood of the rebel-held part of eastern Aleppo on Wednesday September 21.
By Friday, UN envoys were still struggling to get food trucks into the besieged city.
"Forty trucks are sitting at the Turkish-Syrian border, the food will be expiring on Monday, the drivers are sleeping at the border, and they have done so now for a week," said Jan Egekland, Special Adviser to the UN Envoy for Syria.
"So please (Syrian) President Assad, do your bit to enable us to get to eastern Aleppo and the other besieged areas. We also have to get assurances on the east Aleppo case from the armed opposition groups to be able to enter."
Still the nightmare continues
A Syrian rescuer looks towards the sky following an air strike in the rebel-held Ansari district of Aleppo on Thursday, September 23.
At a hospital in Aleppo, Ahmed Jabr and his seven-year-old son Mahmoud lay side by side -- both wounded by rebel shelling that killed three of Mahmoud's brothers.
Any faith father Ahmed had in the cessation of hostilities has been crushed. "Even after the ceasefire, I was here in the hospital and I saw the wounded being brought here," he told CNN.
The attacks happened last Friday -- the same day the ceasefire was announced.
Jomana Karadsheh, Kareem Khadder, Roba Alhenawi, Fred Pleitgen and Barbara Starr contributed to this report
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