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Syrian regime uses napalm and barrel bombs on town near Damascus

January 23, 2017 at 10:56 am

The Syrian regime has attacked the town of Ain Al-Fijeh in Wadi Barada near Damascus with napalm. Local sources said that a helicopter belonging to the Syrian Air Force dropped the chemical munitions along with barrel bombs, Al-Jazeera.Net has reported.

According to the news site, the regime forces renewed their bombardment of the town on ten occasions during the night as the army and its Lebanese Hezbollah allies tried to storm it on several fronts.

Meanwhile, a source within the Syrian regime said that it has reached an agreement with the opposition to evacuate rebels from the Wadi Barada area to the province of Idlib.