Syria:Bombardments on opposition-held towns have killed at least 44 people and wounded more than 100

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Scores reported killed in Syria government air strikes


Government-launched barrel bombs have destroyed much of Aleppo's neighbourhood of Ansar

In Jassem in the southern province of Deraa, 16 civilians were killed in four air strikes on Monday, while 25 were wounded, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said.

Elsewhere, air strikes on Douma, the besieged rebel-held town east of Damascus, killed at least 10 civilians and wounded dozens more.

An AFP photographer in Douma said the strikes hit residential areas and that most of the wounded were children.

On a separate front, Syrian Kurds fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group made fresh advances near Kobane, seizing a new string of villages a week after the flashpoint town was recaptured from the ISIL fighters. The US-led coalition targeting the fighters in both Syria and Iraq reported on Monday it had launched 10 air strikes against ISIL in Syria - nine near Kobane and one at Deir Ezzor in the east.

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