Your trusted source

Syrian government warplanes pounded the Douma suburb of Damascus Sunday, killing 30 people and scattering shattered concrete blocks and mangled cars in the streets, anti-regime activists said, The Daily Star reported.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the area northwest of the capital was targeted by four airstrikes, while local anti-regime activists said vacuum bombs were used in the raid on residential areas.

They posted a number of items of video footage purporting to show the aftermath of the strikes, as Civil Defense teams scrambled to rescue survivors and retrieve dead bodies from beneath the rubble.

Anti-regime groups said that most of the victims appeared to be women and children.

One activist group posted video footage showing a visit by a rebel militia commander, Zahran Alloush, to the area in the aftermath of the strikes.

The activist in the video says that the nearest rebel position is “2 kilometers” away, as residents shout at Alloush, the head of the Islam Army, demanding that his group resume its shelling of regime-held areas of nearby Damascus.

Alloush remains silent as the residents make their comments, and the video shows him making a visit to wounded civilians in a field hospital.