SYRIA’s Foreign Ministry protested to the United Nations in New York on Sunday over Western-backed insurgents’ continued attacks on Aleppo city.

In a letter to UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon and security council president Francois Delattre, the ministry also accused Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar of orchestrating the offensive.

It said groups protected under February’s “cessation of hostilities” had once again allied with al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, to attack Syria’s largest city from the south-west on Friday.