BEIRUT at least 120 people were killed in the fight over Syria on Thursday, including at least 53 soldiers killed in rebel attacks on military checkpoints.
Of the total, 38 were killed in the northern province of Idlib governorate, near the Syrian-Turkish border, which has emerged as the scene of heavy fighting between President Bashar al Assad in recent weeks, troops and rebels reported the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for human rights.
The death toll in Syria continue to ratchet up all week, after the largely failed truce over the weekend, as both parties seem willing to deal with the conflict, which has claimed at least 36,000 lives since March 2011.
Government airstrikes continued around the South and East of the capital when the focus of the struggle between pro-government forces and rebels continues towards Damascus. "The planes are dropping barrels of TNT (explosive) on residential areas," said Haytham al Abdullah, a Syrian activist based in Damascus.
Five civilians, including two children, were killed in the air attacks, said Syrian activists. At least 10 were injured. In the Northwest of the country at least five rebels were killed in fighting with troops near the town of Saraqeb, said the Observatory.
Syrian television reported that the army was carrying out raids on suspected hideouts of people around the broadcaster called "terrorists" in the northern provinces of Aleppo and Damascus and Idlib.
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