At least 25 children are dead after a government plane bombed an elementary school in Aleppo, Syria on Wednesday.
The children died when Syrian forces dropped a "barrel bomb" on a school in the rebel-held city, CNN reported, citing the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria, on the day an exhibit of their art depicting the Syrian war was set to open.
Barrel bombs are essentially oil drums packed to the brim with shrapnel, nails and explosives; they have been systematically deployed against Syria's civilian population, and "tend to create larger zones of building destruction," according to Human Rights Watch. Read more...
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