As many as 500 people have been killed since the Syrian army launched a wide-scale offensive in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitor group reported on Wednesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 89 civilians among those killed since the beginning of the month, adding that the rest were militant fighters.
The Syrian army has made sweeping progress in Aleppo, capturing key towns from the Turkey-backed rebels, aiming to close the borders with Turkey, from which many foreign militants are infiltrating Syria.
A day earlier, Syria’s Presidential Political and Media Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban said the aim of the army’s advances in Aleppo is liberating cities and village seized by terrorists for nearly three years, and controlling the borders with Turkey.
As the brutal dictator Assad continues to kill his own people to stay in power he is assisted by the Russians who don't care how many innocent Syrians are murdered as long as they can keep their military base in that country… disgusting disregard for common humanity…
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