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Syrian opposition activists say military helicopters have dropped barrels packed with explosives in the government’s latest air raids on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 23 people including a family trapped in a burning car.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Aleppo, the raids with barrel bombs, as the crude weapons are known, have flattened residential buildings, forcing defenders to flee and allowing government troops to advance, the activists say.<\/span>
Saturday’s attacks killed 13 people in the al-Bab area of Aleppo, Hassoun Abu Faisal of the Aleppo Media Centre said via Skype.<\/span>
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights corroborated the information.<\/span>
The blasts badly damaged buildings and caused a fuel tanker to explode, setting nearby vehicles alight, including one carrying a family of eight who were trying to flee the area as they heard the approaching helicopters, Abu Faisal said.<\/span>
A video showed men dragging a charred victim out of a smashed building.<\/span>
“You want a political solution? Here is a political solution!” shouted one man as he pointed at two charred bodies on the rubble-strewn ground.<\/span>
The man was referring to last week’s conference in Switzerland between government officials and opposition activists seeking to resolve Syria’s war, which began as a peaceful uprising in March 2011 against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.<\/span>
The Geneva summit did not produce any tangible results, but is likely to lead to backdoor negotiations.<\/span><\/p>\n

More bombings<\/strong><\/span>
Other barrel bombings in Aleppo killed three people near a mosque and another seven people in the Ansari quarter, activists said.<\/span>
Ansari is frequently hit. On Friday, activists uploaded a video of what they said was a child being pulled alive from the rubble after shelling there.<\/span>
Scenes of civilians and firefighters pulling out dusty, bloodied bodies from under the rubble have become more frequent as the bombing continues.<\/span>
The footage appeared authentic and reflected Associated Press reporting of the event.<\/span>
The barrel bombing in Aleppo comes as Syrian government forces try retake the city, which has been divided into government- and opposition-held areas since mid-2012.<\/span>
Over the past few weeks, government troops have fought their way to two rebel-held neighbourhoods of Karam Tarrad and Karam Qaser, mostly by flattening residential buildings with barrel bombs, activists said.<\/span>
The al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out a twin suicide car bombing on Saturday near a rival brigade near Aleppo, killing at least seven people, the Syrian Observatory said.<\/span>
In the central province of Hama, ISIL killed a rival rebel leader and six other fighters in an ambush, the group said.<\/span>
Also in Hama, at least 12 government fighters were killed around the town of Morek, the Syrian Observatory said.<\/span>
It said rebels, including from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, seized Morek overnight, cutting a strategic regime supply line from Hama city to two military bases in neighbouring Idlib province.<\/span>
Elsewhere, shelling and an attack by unknown assailants on a supply line in Homs caused residents to lose electricity across the province, as well as the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, according to the Syrian Observatory.<\/span>
Syrian troops have taken advantage of infighting between a loose alliance of rebel brigades against ISIL, which is widely despised by other rebel groups and activists.<\/span><\/p>\n

New death toll<\/strong><\/span>
Syria’s conflict has killed more than 136,000 people, in the latest count by the Syrian Observatory, which tracks the missing and killed through a network of informants on the ground.<\/span>
Among the dead were 47,998 civilians, including more than 7,300 children.<\/span>
The war has also forcibly displaced one-third of Syria’s pre-war population of 23 million.<\/span>
Tens of thousands more are blockaded in rebel-held areas.<\/span>
They include the Yarmouk area on the southern edge of Damascus, where Assad loyalists have steadily intensified a blockade over the past year.<\/span>
Activists say this has led to the deaths of over 80 people from hunger-related illnesses or from a lack of medical aid.<\/span>
Over the past two days, aid workers distributed 2,014 food parcels, each meant to feed a family for 10 days. The UN estimates there are at least 18,000 people in Yarmouk.<\/span>
Aid workers continued on Saturday the distribution, handing over another 480 parcels by the afternoon, Chris Gunness, the UN spokesman, said.<\/span>
He said it was not enough to cover the needs of Yarmouk’s residents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shrunken by malnutrition<\/strong><\/span>
Footage carried by Lebanese Al-Mayadeen television showed hundreds of men and women, many with faces shrunken by malnutrition, desperately jostling to reach the distribution point.<\/span>
“These tense scenes attest to the profound levels of need that pertain in a camp that has been besieged for months,” Gunness said.<\/span>
In another development, an amateur video posted to the internet on Saturday apparently shows ISIL fighters decapitating a man believed to have been a pro-government Shia fighter.<\/span>
The footage shows armed men in black standing outdoors in a circle around a man who is lying on the grass. One of the fighters leans over the victim and appears to cut off his head with a small knife, cheered on by the others.<\/span>
Once the head is detached, the fighters holds it up and places it on the man’s back before it rolls off and settles on the ground about a three feet away from his body.<\/span>
The remainder of the three-minute video shows the crowd, which includes several children, talking, laughing and taking photographs of the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Al Jazeera<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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