DAMASCUS, Syria
At least 83 people, including eight children and three women, were killed in attacks by the Syrian regime across the country on Tuesday, activists said.
London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), who track civillian and dissident casualties, said Syrian security forces killed 13 people in the capital Damascus' suburbs and 37 in northwestern city Aleppo.
They also said that 17 in Homs, eight in Hama, four in Daraa, two died in both Idlib and Quneitra.
Another activist group, the Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC) published a video on internet that shows the rescue of a child from a wreckage of a house that was destroyed in a barrel bomb attack carrried out by Syrian regime forces in Museyir district of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCC) claimed that the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) executed 20 people by firing squad and threw them into a well in the village of Beshkatin in Aleppo.
More than 100,000 people have been killed during the three-year conflict, which has also internally displaced more than 6.5 million people. Over two million are now registered as refugees in neighboring Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq.
The death toll among children has exceeded 12,000 since clashes broke out in Syria in March, 2011, according to SNHR.
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