Ninety people, including women and children, were killed in air raids carried out by the Syrian army in the city of Aleppo, adding up to the list of more than a hundred thousand casualties in the nearly three-year civil war.
The raids, which targeted opposition strongholds, took place Saturday, CNN reported Sunday.
“The situation is very urgent,” an unnamed medical staffer from a field hospital in Aleppo told CNN. “We need U.S. pressure on the regime for us to be able to take a breath, to have them stop this aggressive shelling on Aleppo.”
The medical staffer said the “humanitarian situation is very bad” since there was already a huge number of wounded people in the area.
The CNN cited a report released Thursday by the Human Rights Watch which said that the Syrian government “deliberately and unlawfully” demolished thousands of homes in rebel strongholds in the cities of Damascus and Hama in one year.
The bombings came after a first round of Syrian peace talks ended in Geneva on Friday with no progress towards ending a nearly three-year civil war, CNN said.
The contentious first round began with bitter exchanges and repeatedly seemed on the verge of collapse before the two sides entered the same room.
The next round of negotiations is due to start February 10 but the government has been unable to say whether it will return.
The United Nations put the death toll in the Syrian civil war, which started in 2011, at more than 100,000.
(with reports from CNN)
