Air strikes on Tuesday killed more than a dozen civilians in parts of Syria's south near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a war monitor said. The regime has been pounding the southwestern province of Quneitra since Sunday in a bid to retake it from rebels, after winning back most of the neighbouring governorate of Daraa in less than a month.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes killed 14 civilians in Ain al-Tina village on Quneitra's border with Daraa which had reportedly been taking shelter in a large building. "They were all displaced from other areas. They included five children and three women," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.