DAMASCUS (AA) – At least 44 people, including three women and two children, were killed in attacks staged by the Syrian regime in several cities on Sunday, activists said.
Assad forces killed 12 in Aleppo, 10 in Daraa, six in the suburbs of capital Damascus, five in Hama and Idlib each, four in Homs, and one in Deir-uz Zor and Latakia each, according to London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), which tracks civilian and dissident casualties. Of the causalities, 15 were reportedly members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), SNHR stated.
The Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC) said in a press release that regime forces attacked the Duma, Yarmuk, Darayya, Berze, Kabun and Cobar regions of Damascus with mortars and rockets. The regions under opposition forces' control were also bombed by regime warplanes.
Meanwhile SANA, Syrian national news agency, said that regime forces made major gains against opposition fighters in operations across the country.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in more than two years of conflict in Syria and over two million Syrians are now registered as refugees in neighboring countries, Turkey. Lebanon and Iraq, according to the UN.
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