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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Assad's barrel bombs kill 15, including 8 children, in Deir Ezzor
2015-05-25
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] At least 15 people, including 8 children, were killed on Saturday in barrel kabooms on al-Hamidiyya neighborhood in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor, activists said.

8 children, mostly brothers, and a women were among the casualties of the Syrian regime Arclight airstrikes on the rebel-held neighborhood, Mohammed Hassan, local activist, told Zaman al-Wasl.

For months, the regime has waged an unrelenting aerial campaign against the opposition-held areas making particular use of crude so-called barrel bombs.

Rights groups criticize the weapons as indiscriminate and say they are more likely to cause civilian casualties.

Syria's four-year-old war has killed more than 220,000 people and forced millions out of their homes.
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#1  Barrel Boy, the first arab nuke
Posted by: Shipman   2015-05-25 01:27  

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