The Syrian Air Force carried out 33,376 airstrikes on various provinces in the last 10 months, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Thursday. The Observatory stated that Syrian helicopters dropped 18,038 barrel bombs on Rif Dimashq, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Al Hasakah, Deir Ezzor, Al Quneitera, al- Suwaydaa, Daraa, Idlib and Lattakia. It added that Assad's warplanes launched at least 15,338 airstrikes on Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Al Hasakah, Deir Ezzor, Al Raqqa, Al Quneitera, Daraa, Idlib and Lattakia. SOHR also documented that 5,499 civilians were killed in Assad's airstrikes including 775 women and 1122 children due to aerial bombardment carried out by the regime warplanes and helicopters, pointing out that 30,000 other civilians were wounded. It reported that 2,698 Nusra Front, Islamic State, rebel and Islamic battalions' fighters were killed in Al Assad's regime airstrikes. The conflict in Syria has evolved from a purported revolution to a civil war during the summer of 2012.
