(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least seven people, including two children and two women, have been killed in regime airstrikes on Barzeh, northeastern suburb of Damascus, local activists said Monday.
The northeastern neighborhoods of Damascus have endured to heavy aerial and ground bombardment in the past three days.
The airstrikes on Barzeh suburb come after almost three years since local ceasefire deal reached between rebels and the regime army.
On Sunday, regime forces fired rockets on Qaboun outskirt, pressing an attack that began the day before and has killed up to 16 people, a medical worker and war monitors said.
The medical worker and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the biggest attack on the Qaboun area, to the city's northeast, in at least two years.
At least three shells hit government-held areas closer to the center of Damascus and near Qaboun on Sunday, but there were no reports of casualties, a Hezbollah-run military media unit and a Reuters witness said.
The medical worker in nearby Eastern Ghouta, just outside Damascus, said at least 13 people had died. He said he could hear explosions coming from Qaboun early on Sunday.
Witnesses said hundreds of families fled their homes in Qaboun, rebel held parts of Harasta and Barzeh that were shelled by the army and sought refuge in Eastern Ghouta.
Rescue workers said army shelling also hit Douma, the main rebel stronghold in Eastern Ghouta with at least two dead.
Violence in western Syria has increasingly tarnished a shaky ceasefire that took effect on Dec. 30 with the support of Russia, which backs Bashar al-Assad, and Turkey, which supports some rebel groups. (Reuters)
The northeastern neighborhoods of Damascus have endured to heavy aerial and ground bombardment in the past three days.
The airstrikes on Barzeh suburb come after almost three years since local ceasefire deal reached between rebels and the regime army.
On Sunday, regime forces fired rockets on Qaboun outskirt, pressing an attack that began the day before and has killed up to 16 people, a medical worker and war monitors said.
The medical worker and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the biggest attack on the Qaboun area, to the city's northeast, in at least two years.
At least three shells hit government-held areas closer to the center of Damascus and near Qaboun on Sunday, but there were no reports of casualties, a Hezbollah-run military media unit and a Reuters witness said.
The medical worker in nearby Eastern Ghouta, just outside Damascus, said at least 13 people had died. He said he could hear explosions coming from Qaboun early on Sunday.
Witnesses said hundreds of families fled their homes in Qaboun, rebel held parts of Harasta and Barzeh that were shelled by the army and sought refuge in Eastern Ghouta.
Rescue workers said army shelling also hit Douma, the main rebel stronghold in Eastern Ghouta with at least two dead.
Violence in western Syria has increasingly tarnished a shaky ceasefire that took effect on Dec. 30 with the support of Russia, which backs Bashar al-Assad, and Turkey, which supports some rebel groups. (Reuters)
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