The group also reported eight people were killed Thursday, including two children, when rebels fired mortar rounds into regime-held areas in western Aleppo.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: “Fifteen civilians, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nayrab neighbourhood”.
“There was a first barrel bomb and when people gathered and the ambulances arrived, a second barrel struck and there were more deaths”, an AFP reporter in the rebel-held part of the city said.
Activists posted videos of the barrel bomb attack online.
According to Abu Leith, women and children were among the fatalities. He lost his 10-year-old brother, Ali, in the attack. In one of the videos, a man sits outside his demolished house, visibly upset. In the videos, rescuers help survivors and search for the missing.
State TV showed the buses leaving the area, and two activists from Daraya sent text messages as they boarded the buses to say they were leaving.
“I love my five children, oh God”, he said.
“He is my son. he is gone”, she screams.
A horrific barrel bomb attack on Wednesday by Syrian government forces left a total of 15 people dead in the Aleppo suburb of Bab al-Nairab, tearing families apart.
She touches his face and closes his eyes.
Also Saturday, Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria said Turkish airstrikes hit their bases near Jarablus, a border town seized by Turkey-backed rebels earlier this week.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) during a bilateral meeting focused on the Syrian crisis in Geneva, Switzerland, August 26, 2016.
Since then, residents in the city say the Russia-backed Syrian government forces have intensified their bombardment and have been indiscriminately targeting civilian neighbourhoods, with hundreds of civilians being killed on a weekly basis.
More than 290,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began, according to the Observatory.
The Syrian regime has been accused of using the controversial barrel bombs, which due to their poor accuracy have resulted in a huge amount of devastation and indiscriminate loss of life in areas that are home to civilians.
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Syria’s regime has been accused of regularly using barrel bombs, crude, explosive devices, on rebel-held areas that are home to civilians, and other parties to the conflict are not known to have used the weapons.
