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Videos uploaded by activists showed dozens of bloodstained corpses lying amid rubble and shrapnel. An adolescent boy with both his feet blown off lay flailing in the middle of a road.
Dozens of people were killed and many more wounded in a Syrian government air strike that hit a bakery where a crowd was lining up for bread on Sunday, activists said.
Palestinian camp of Yarmourk, on southern outskirts of Damascus, is again under attack of artillery fire by government forces.
A Palestinian source confirmed on Tuesday that armed militia has stormed the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees and that they are in full control of it.
Anwar Raja, spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian General Command (PFLP-GC), told Xinhua that the armed militia, including the al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front, have entered the camp like “Berber Tatars and Mongols,” adding that they have carried out looting and burglaries in homes and shops.
A faction of Syrian opposition forces captured a regime infantry base in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, as forces battling to topple President Bashar al-Assad advanced on the country’s largest city.
The base was the second major army installation taken by Syrian fighters in the city in a week. Its fall is the latest blow to the regime.
A statement by the al-Tawheed Brigade said fighters “fully liberated” the military facility in Aleppo on Saturday. It was posted on al-Tawheed’s official website on Sunday.
Syrian forces assaulted rebel areas southwest of Damascus and insurgents captured large parts of a military school in the north as the nation’s conflict entered its 22nd month on Saturday, activists said.
Syrian warplanes bombarded the town of Moadamiyat al-Sham, southwest of Damascus, while the army deployed reinforcements and attempted to storm the rebel-held nearly town of Daraya, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
In Daraya, rebels held out against fierce army attempts to break in on several fronts, the Britain-based observatory said.