At least 65 people, including seven children and four women, have been killed in air and ground operations across Syria carried out by President Bashar al-Assad's regime, opposition activists have claimed.
Twenty five people were killed in the suburbs of Damascus, 10 in Hama, nine in Idlib, eight in Daraa, five in Lattakia, four in Aleppo, three in Quneitra, one in Homs, the London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights watchdog said on Tuesday.
An additional report from the Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCCS), a network of local opposition groups, said that Assad's forces staged heavy armed attacks on the opposition-controlled areas of Aleppo and army helicopters dropped several barrel bombs there.
Intensive clashes occurred between the Free Syrian Army and regime forces in Lattakia, and many buildings were damaged and demolished in the attacks, LCC sources also said.
More than 100,000 people have been killed during the ongoing three-year conflict in Syria, which has also internally displaced more than 6.5 million people, according to the U.N.
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