300 dead in 8 days of air raids on Syria's Aleppo: NGO

A security source told AFP that the army had adopted the tactic because of a lack of ground forces, and argued the heavy civilian toll was because the rebels were in residential areas.
Aleppo has been split between opposition and government forces since a massive rebel assault in the summer of 2012.
Human Rights Watch has accused government forces of using weapons and tactics that fail to distinguish between civilians and combatants, making such attacks "unlawful".
Yesterday the main opposition National Coalition called on Western states to impose a no-fly zone to halt such attacks.
"Until Assad's warplanes are stopped, the humanitarian disaster, regional instability, and the rise of extremism will only continue to get worse," Munzer Aqbiq, an adviser to the Coalition's president, said in a statement.