DAMASCUS
At least 78 people, including five children and eight women, have been killed in air and ground operations across Syria carried out by forces loyal to the regime, opposition activists have claimed.
Thirty-one people were killed in the suburbs of Damascus, 13 in Aleppo, 10 in each Idlib and Homs, five in each Al Hasakah and Hama, two each in Latakia and Daraa, the London-based watchdog Syrian Network for Human Rights said Thursday.
An additional report from the Local Coordination Committees of Syria -- 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.
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.
More than two million Syrians are now registered as refugees in neighboring Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.
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