(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 people have been killed on Sunday in Syrian regime air strikes on rebel-held neighborhoods and towns of Aleppo and Daraa, activists and monitoring groups said.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Syrian regime's barrel bombs and missiles have killed at least 18 people, including 8 children and 5 women, in Eastern Karak, Tafas, al-Soura and Dael towns in Daraa province.
SNHR said the death toll of Sunday reached 49 in various parts of Syria by government forces on Sunday.
Syrian northern city of Aleppo has also witnessed the fiercest aerial campaign in months.
Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Aleppo said 10 people have been killed due to aerial bombardment on rebel-held neighborhoods of al-Naireb, al-Marjeh, al-Hamidiyah, and al-Sakhour in Aleppo.
Medics told Zaman al-Wasl more than 120 people have been killed in the fiercest aerial campaign on Aleppo in a week.
Rebel-held parts of Aleppo have faced regular air strikes by the Syrian military. A U.N. commission of enquiry on Syria has recorded the intense use of barrel bombs - improvised bombs dropped by helicopter - by Bashar al-Assad forces in the city.
Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmed Badr al-Din al-Hassoun, speaking on state TV, urged the complete destruction of insurgent-held areas from which shells were being fired.
"We inform the civilians there, be they supporters (of the insurgents), or not, to leave the area. Every area from which a shell is fired, should be completely destroyed," he said, according to Reuters.
More than 220,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war.
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