Battle for Idlib: Syrian army helicopters are dropping barrel bombs

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Battle for Idlib: Syrian army helicopters are dropping barrel bombs
MEE and agencies
Sunday 9 September

Russian and Syrian jets have resumed intensive strikes in Idlib and Hama for a second day, killing at least two children, residents and rescuers have said.

Damascus stepped up its assault on the rebels' last major stronghold after a summit attended by Russia, Turkey and Iran failed to agree a ceasefire on Friday.

Sources said Syrian army helicopters on Sunday dropped barrel bombs, typically filled with high explosives and shrapnel, on al-Habeet and Abdin villages in southern Idlib and a string of other hamlets and villages in the area.

Read more at: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-government-offensive-continues-syria-s-idlib-province-1262532302

Anyone using barrel bombs that kill indiscriminately might say anything and Russia is on the side of Assad. I don't know why they are still using such weapons.

Confirmed by a few pieces instead of the one report by Russia on white phosphorus, totally made up in all likelihood.

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A bomb is a bomb

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"A bomb is a bomb"

So, we Americans try to do surgical strikes, barrel bombs are filled with nails and such. They are designed to kill as many people as possible, women, children. Crude primitive bombs. Maybe the Russians have better more precise weaponry, they've announced they are doing all to not kill civilians.

Nail bombs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_bomb   like what has been in those pressure cooker bombs as at the Boston Marathon.  If it doesn't kill you, maybe it will maim you, countless injuries from the Boston Marathon, we mainly heard about those killed.