{"id":3959,"date":"2014-12-28T07:20:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T07:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2014-12-28T07:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T07:20:27","slug":"syrian-air-force-kills-45-civilians-in-stepped-up-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/12\/28\/3959\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian air force kills 45 civilians in stepped-up raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/syria-bombar-100-killed.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>At least 45 civilians were killed and some 175 wounded when aircraft bombed a northern Syrian city controlled by ISIL, as Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government stepped up air raids, residents and a monitoring group said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Helicopters and war planes dropped barrel bombs &#8212; steel drums full of shrapnel and explosives &#8212; on residential and industrial areas in the city of al Bab and neighbouring Qabaseen, northeast of Aleppo, on Thursday and overnight, locals said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;People were going about scraping a living and there were no armed groups in the market, only poor people. Why is Assad killing us? May God bring vengeance on him,&#8221; said Yousef al-Saadi, a resident of Qabaseen and a volunteer with the local civil defence group who was contacted onSkype.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Syrian state media did not report the strikes on al Bab, a city of around 100,000 people that has been a target of heavy government strikes since the start of U.S- led military campaign against ISIL, in Syria in late September.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 37 civilians were killed. The British-based group, which gathers information from a variety of sources, said there had been an increase in air raids by the Syrian military across rebel held areas in the last three days.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It said at least 110 civilians had been killed in more than 470 air strikes on rebel held areas inSyria in the last 72 hours, including towns in insurgent-held eastern suburbs of the capitalDamascus, where the army has stepped up a two-year campaign to retake the area.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eleven civilians, most women and children, were killed by loyalist snipers when they were trying to leave Zebdin, a besieged rebel-held neighbourhood in the rural outskirts of Damascus, the Observatory said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;There have been unprecedented air raids across Syria in the last three days where the regime seeks to make gains on the ground to improve its negotiating stance in future political talks,&#8221; Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Observatory, told Reuters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Syrian media said it had repulsed &#8220;terror attacks&#8221; across rebel-held areas and inflicted losses against foreign jihadists but gave no figures on civilian casualties from its air raids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>World Bulletin<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 45 civilians were killed and some 175 wounded when aircraft bombed a northern Syrian city controlled by ISIL, as Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government stepped up air raids, residents and a monitoring group said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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