Children among at least 20 killed as fighting intensifies in Syria

At least 14 people have been killed after air strikes on rebel-held parts of Aleppo, while six other people including children died when a school was shelled in southern Syria.

Shelling was also reported in the capital, Damascus, with mortar shells fired by opposition groups landing in the residential Qasaa district and close to the Umayyad Mosque, wounding an unspecified number of people.