At least 27 people have been killed Tuesday in Aleppo and Damascus provinces due to regime and Russian air strikes in a fiercest aerial campaign on rebel-held areas for months, activists and a monitoring group said.
13 people have been killed in Darret Ezzah and Hayan towns near the northern city of Aleppo in suspected Russian air strikes, activists and the Syrian Network for Human Rights said.
Russia, a top ally of Bashar al-Assad, started bombing in Syria on Sept. 30 saying it was targeting Islamic State and other opposition groups, a campaign that has drawn Moscow deeper into Syria's more than four-year-old conflict.
At least 104 people, including 25 children and 15 women, have been killed in Russian air strike since September 30, the monitoring reported.
Rebels on the ground and Western states have said Moscow's air campaign, which has been combined with ground attacks by pro-regime forces, have mainly targeted rebel groups not associated with Islamic State, including U.S.-trained fighters.
Near Syria's capital, more than 14 civilians were killed in the embattled Eastern Ghouta district of Damascus when regime warplanes hit a marketplace in Ein Tarma town.
Eastern Ghouta area is regularly targeted by regime shelling and bombardment and has been under a suffocating siege for nearly two years.
Early Tuesday, Islam Army, key rebel group in Eastern Ghouta, has fired two shells at the Russian embassy in the capital as scores of pro-regime supporters gathered outside the compound to thank Moscow for its intervention in Syria. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties, according to AP.
Islam Army fighters have targeted the embassy in the past but it was not clear if Tuesday's attack targeted the rally.
Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations to impose an arms embargo on the Syrian government after Sunday's attacks, which the rights group said demonstrated the regime's "appalling disregard for civilians."
But Damascus has insisted it is waging war against "terrorism" to defend deadly attacks on civilians.
More than 250,000 people have lost their lives in the 4-1/2 year war in Syria.
13 people have been killed in Darret Ezzah and Hayan towns near the northern city of Aleppo in suspected Russian air strikes, activists and the Syrian Network for Human Rights said.
Russia, a top ally of Bashar al-Assad, started bombing in Syria on Sept. 30 saying it was targeting Islamic State and other opposition groups, a campaign that has drawn Moscow deeper into Syria's more than four-year-old conflict.
At least 104 people, including 25 children and 15 women, have been killed in Russian air strike since September 30, the monitoring reported.
Rebels on the ground and Western states have said Moscow's air campaign, which has been combined with ground attacks by pro-regime forces, have mainly targeted rebel groups not associated with Islamic State, including U.S.-trained fighters.
Near Syria's capital, more than 14 civilians were killed in the embattled Eastern Ghouta district of Damascus when regime warplanes hit a marketplace in Ein Tarma town.
Eastern Ghouta area is regularly targeted by regime shelling and bombardment and has been under a suffocating siege for nearly two years.
Early Tuesday, Islam Army, key rebel group in Eastern Ghouta, has fired two shells at the Russian embassy in the capital as scores of pro-regime supporters gathered outside the compound to thank Moscow for its intervention in Syria. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties, according to AP.
Islam Army fighters have targeted the embassy in the past but it was not clear if Tuesday's attack targeted the rally.
Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations to impose an arms embargo on the Syrian government after Sunday's attacks, which the rights group said demonstrated the regime's "appalling disregard for civilians."
But Damascus has insisted it is waging war against "terrorism" to defend deadly attacks on civilians.
More than 250,000 people have lost their lives in the 4-1/2 year war in Syria.
Zaman Al Wasl
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