• Syrian rescue workers and citizens carry a child on a stretcher from a building following a reported barrel bomb attack by Syrian government forces at the Al-Firdaws neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday. Regime choppers allegedly dropped more barrel bombs elsewhere in northern Syria on Sunday, killing over 50 more civilians. | AFP-JIJI
    Syrian rescue workers and citizens carry a child on a stretcher from a building following a reported barrel bomb attack by Syrian government forces at the Al-Firdaws neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday. Regime choppers allegedly dropped more barrel bombs elsewhere in northern Syria on Sunday, killing over 50 more civilians. | AFP-JIJI

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BEIRUT – A Syrian air force raid killed at least 59 civilians at a market in a town held by Islamic State militants in northern Syria on Saturday, according to a monitoring group.

The strike on the town of al-Bab, northeast of Aleppo, used barrel bombs, which are steel drums full of shrapnel and explosives, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has denied the air force uses such devices.

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