Syrian regime killed 59 people including women and children in offensives on several cities across the country on Friday, activists said.
Syrian Network for Human Rights, a London-based human rights group that tracks civilian and dissident casualties, said forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched artillery and rocket assaults in a number of opposition-held areas in Aleppo, Hama, Daraa, Homs, Idlib, Deir-ez Zor and Quneitra.
Army helicopters dropped bombs in Damascus’s Mulehya district, and many houses were destroyed, according to a report from the Local Coordination Committees of Syria.
The report said there had been intense attacks by regime forces in the East Guta, Darayya, Cobar and Kabun neighborhoods of Damascus and clashes between armed opposition and government forces in Muleyha and Darayya districts of Damascus continued.
Meanwhile, Syrian official new agency SANA reported that security forces killed a number of opposition fighters in operations in Aleppo and Deir-ez Zor.
Syria has been gripped by almost constant fighting since President Bashar al-Assad's regime responded to anti-government protests in March 2011 with a violent crackdown, sparking a conflict which has spiraled into a civil war that has claimed more than 100,000 lives so far.
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