Syrian warplanes pounded the rebel Jubar district of the capital Damascus with unprecedented ferocity on Tuesday, launching 25 raids, a monitor said.
"It's the largest number of air raids to hit Jubar since the beginning of the army offensive on the district" six days ago, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Jubar is in eastern Damascus and has been in rebel hands for a year.
It is considered a strategic position because it leads onto the adjacent Abbasid Place in central Damascus and also opens onto the key rebel stronghold of Eastern Ghouta in Damascus province.
Government forces have been attacking Jubar since last week, with troops backed by fighters from Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement, a Syrian regime ally.
The offensive is the biggest against Jubar since rebels seized the neighborhood in mid-2013.
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