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| At Least 35 Civilians Killed in Syria's Aleppo |
| 2015-04-13 |
| [AnNahar] At least 35 non-combatants were killed on Saturday as government forces and rebel fighters exchanged fire in Syria's main northern city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included 18 civilians -- two of them children -- killed in regime air strikes on Al-Maadi and Sheikh al-Lutfi, two rebel-held neighborhoods in east Aleppo. "Seventeen other non-combatants were killed when rebel groups fired rockets on neighborhoods controlled by the regime, including Suleimaniyah and other areas," the Britannia-based group said. Pictures circulating on social media depicted significant damage. Fighting erupted in Aleppo in 2012, reducing swathes of Syria's commercial hub to ruins. Government forces control the west of the city and frequently bomb rebel-held neighborhoods in the east from the air. The rebels often retaliate with rocket and mortar fire into government-held neighborhoods. Both sides have been criticized by human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups for firing indiscriminately on civilians. |
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