Week-Long Aleppo Air Raids Kill More Than 300

More than 300 people have been killed in a week of air raids on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and nearby towns by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, a monitoring group said on Monday.   Many of the casualties, who included scores of women and children, were killed by so-called barrel bombs dropped from helicopters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.   Syrian authorities say they are battling rebels who have controlled parts of Aleppo, Syria's biggest...

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