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Death toll of Tuesday reached 72 as Assad extends aerial campaign

The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas of the northern cities of Aleppo and Idlib on Tuesday, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed at least 40 people, including children and women, activists and monitoring group said.

The Syria Network for Human Rights said at least 37 people were killed in 3 missile attack on Darkoush town in Idlib province; as well three people were killed in Bab al-Nairab neighborhood of Aleppo city.

Syrian regime also has detonated a tunnel that was reportedly used by rebels in the government-controlled part of Aleppo on Tuesday.

SNHR also said 127 victims died in government’s shelling on Aleppo from May 1, 2015 to May 16.

The death toll of Tuesday reached 57 according to SNHR.



Fatha Army in Idlib  has seized full control of regime’s powerful stronghold of of al-Mastouma camp for the first time since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011.

The alliance of Islamist groups, including the Nusra Front, who seized large parts of al-Mastouma town days ago, has taken full control of Bashar al-Assad mail stronghold in Idlib province.

On another battlefront, activists said that around 170 jihadis have been killed in airstrikes conducted by a U.S.-led coalition against ISIS in northeastern Syria in the past 48 hours.

According to AFP, "the jihadis were killed in the past 48 hours in the province of Hasakah, nearly all of them in very intense airstrikes by the international coalition which is helping Kurdish forces in the area."

Syria's four-year-old war has killed more than 220,000 people and forced millions out of their homes.

Zaman Al Wasl
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