Regime airstrikes kill 20, including 4 children, in Douma near Damascus

(Zaman Al Wasl) – Syrian regime airstrikes on Douma, a rebel-held city northeast Damascus, killed at least 20 people, including 4 children and a woman, on Thursday, a monitoring group said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group that tracks violence through a network of sources in Syria, said the attacks occurred in Douma, the city which has been under suffocating army siege for more than a year.

The observatory also reported heavy clashes in al-Dokhania area near Jobar between regime forces and Islamic battalions backed by Jabhat al-Nusra.

At least 191,369 people have been killed in Syria's conflict; more than double the figure documented a year ago and probably still an under-estimate, according to the United Nations.