Bashar Assads: BEIRUT Syrian Government Aircraft

BEIRUT Syrian government aircraft: BEIRUT Syrian government aircraft pounded opposition areas in the northern city of Aleppo and near the southern border with Jordan on Monday, a day after airstrikes killed at least 76 people, while the United Nations issued a record appeal for $6.5 billion to help the millions of Syrians uprooted by their homelands civil war, according to The Chronicle Herald. The government has relied on its air power in particular in northern Syria, much of which fell to opposition fighters over the course of the past year. One of the major battlegrounds on that front is Aleppo, where Assads forces and rebels have been bogged down in a bloody fight since rebels launched an assault on the city in mid-2012 and President Bashar Assads air force is his greatest advantage in the countrys civil war, and he has successfully exploited it to stem and even roll back rebel advances across the country. Human rights groups say Syrian military aircraft have carried out indiscriminate air raids that frequently hit civilian targets, such as hospitals, bakeries and residential areas. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.