Air strikes kill dozens in Aleppo

At least 29 people, including children, have been killed in government airstrikes in Syria’s Aleppo city, residents and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human rights said on Sunday dozens of barrel bombs – oil drums or cylinders packed with explosives and shrapnel- were dropped by military helicopters on the heavily populated al-Qatriji […]

At least 29 people, including children, have been killed in government airstrikes in Syria’s Aleppo city, residents and a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human rights said on Sunday dozens of barrel bombs – oil drums or cylinders packed with explosives and shrapnel- were dropped by military helicopters on the heavily populated al-Qatriji neighbourhood.
At least nine civilians were killed and scores injured, the monitoring group added.
At least 40 air strikes hit the rebel-held areas on Sunday in some of the heaviest recent raids by Russian and Syrian government war-planes, the Syrian Civil Defence have said.
Rebels also hit government-held parts of Aleppo in what Syrian media said was an escalation in mortar attacks on the western parts of the country’s largest city before the war.