The death toll from regime airstrikes on Syria’s Aleppo has risen to 85, a monitoring group said on Sunday, as the conflict grinds on after 10 days of inconclusive peace talks.
The latest fighting came as a suicide car bomb in a Hezbollah stronghold across the border in Lebanon killed four people on Saturday, stoking fears of further regional spillover of the conflict.
Helicopters hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Saturday with barrels packed with explosives, a controversial tactic widely condemned by rights groups as indiscriminate.
“At least 85 people were killed, including 65 civilians, 10 of whom were children,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Attacks targeted several areas of the city, with 34 of the dead in the Tareq al-Bab area alone.