Syria strikes opposition positions in, around Aleppo

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Fifteen people were killed Tuesday when the Syrian air force carried out airstrikes in opposition-held parts of Aleppo in northern Syria, according to a Civil Defense source.

"Fifteen people were killed and scores injured when regime aircraft struck Aleppo's Al-Maghayir neighborhood," the source told Anadolu Agency.

The death toll from Tuesday's airstrikes is expected to mount further as a number of people were stuck under rubble in the wake of the strikes, according to the same source.

One day earlier, at least 89 civilians were killed when forces loyal to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad targeted residential areas across the country, opposition sources said.

The U.K.-based Syrian Network for Human Rights, which opposes the Assad regime, said in a statement issued early Tuesday that Syrian artillery and air raids had killed 42 people in Aleppo, 13 in Rif Dimashq, five in Deraa and one each in Lattakia, Deir ez-Zor and Hama.

The Syrian Revolution General Commission, for its part, said the Syrian air force on Monday had targeted the town of Manbij northwest of Aleppo - currently held by the Daesh militant group - leaving 26 civilians dead.

The Istanbul-based Syrian Revolution General Commission is an umbrella group of Syrian anti-Assad political and media groups.

Syria has been gripped by violence since the Assad regime launched a violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations that erupted in early 2011.

The crackdown quickly triggered a civil war in which more than 220,000 people have since been killed in fierce fighting between pro-regime forces and heavily-armed opposition groups, according to UN figures.