Syria: Air strikes, rebel fire Near Damascus kill at least 35

At least 40 people were killed and more than 120 others wounded in Syrian airstrikes against rebel-held areas east of the capital Damascus on Wednesday, a monitor group reported.

Rights groups have condemned indiscriminate rebel rocket fire into the capital as amounting to war crimes.

Meanwhile, other activists have posted online footages purporting to show the aftermath of the Syrian airstrikes at one of the marketplaces in Douma, with scenes of destructions while locals are moving the dead bodies and wounded people.

“They are trapped and surrounded by fighting on all fronts, with no means of escaping the unlawful aerial and shelling attacks waged by government forces”, Boumedouha said.

Syria’s government is committing war crimes against besieged residents of Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus, with heavy aerial bombardment compounding the misery created by a regime blockade, Amnesty worldwide said Wednesday.

The air raids hit towns in Eastern Ghouta, a rebel stronghold region outside the capital.

He added: “Syrian government forces have committed war crimes and have displayed a sinister callousness towards Eastern Ghouta’s civilians”.

“A number of citizens, including a woman, were killed and others were injured…by terrorist shelling of residential neighbourhoods in Damascus”, state television said in a breaking news alert. During the night fierce clashes started between the Government and opposition forces.

Syria’s ongoing conflict, which has left the country divided between warring factions, began in early 2011 when the Assad regime responded with unexpected ferocity to protests that erupted as part of the “Arab Spring” uprisings.

The Syrian Civil Defense said on Twitter that the fires were not going out.

“I was amazed that people could come out of that wreckage alive. Four more are still under the ground”, he said.

Euronews has been unable to independently verify the Observatory’s casualty figures.