DAMASCUS
At least 40 people were killed in air offensives mounted by President Bashar al-Assad's regime across Syria on Monday, and over 6,500 citizens fled Syria in the last three days.
London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) watchdog said that 15 people were killed in the suburbs of Damascus, nine in Dara’a, five in Idlib, four in Hama and seven in Homs and Aleppo together.
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCC) reported that regime army helicopters dropped several barrel bombs in Homs, where many buildings were either damaged or demolished.
Air raid campaigns have forced nearly 4,000 Aleppo citizens to leave Syria for Turkey in last three days. Among the refugees are women, children, the injured and the elderly.
Jordan official news agency 'PETRA' reported that nearly 2,500 Syrians entered Jordan in the last few days. The total number of Syrian refugees in Jordan has reached 592 thousand.
Over 100,000 people have been killed, 3.5 million internally displaced and 2.5 million have sought refuge in neighbouring countries since the conflict erupted in March, 2011, between the Syrian government and opposition groups, the UN said.
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