BEIRUT (AFP) – 25 Aug. 2016- Eleven children were killed on Thursday in a barrel bomb attack carried out by government forces on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria’s Aleppo city, a monitor said.

“Fifteen civilians, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nayrab neighbourhood” in southern Aleppo city, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.