(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air raids struck targets east of Damascus and further north Thursday, killing 14 people including six children, AFP reported.
Ten people were killed, including a woman and two children, in Jisrin, to the east of Damascus.
And four children died in attacks on Hish and Babolin, on the highway that links the capital to Aleppo in the north, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Rebels have been trying for two years to seize important army camps in the area, at Hamadiyeh and Wadi Deif, and the army often carries out air raids to harry them that end up killing civilians, according to AFP.
Regime forces on Thursday continued aerial bombardment ground shelling on rebel-held Jobar neighborhood as the violent clashes continue against the al Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al Nusra along with various Syrian rebel brigades.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported use of toxic gas bombs by regime army in Jobar, saying 3 people wounded.
Reuters said regime is trying to retake Jobar after the capture of several rebel-held areas around the center of the capital, including the town of Mleiha just outside Damascus on August 14
The last few weeks marked the fiercest assault on Jobar since the start of the three-year war, with tens of air strikes and mortar bombs.
Residents in central Damascus told Zaman al-Wasl that shelling was the heaviest in recent weeks. The windows have been shattered and entire buildings shake. “Warplanes buzz is unstoppable,” they said.
In Daraa province, Assad’s helicopters have dropped 6 barrel bombs on Jasem, Sayda and al Tebah towns with no information about casualties.
The observatory also reported fierce clashes in Hama countryside as regime aerial bombardment struck towns of Kafar Zayta,Morek, Abo Hbelat and al Hardaneh towns.
(Editing by Anwar Diab)
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