Human Rights Watch is reporting the Syrian government launched a series of ballistic missile strikes in the northern province of Aleppo last week, killing more than 141 people, including 71 children. The group said it had visited four attack sites, three of them in the city of Aleppo and all of them in residential neighborhoods. HRW’s United Nations director Philippe Bolopion described the damage.

Philippe Bolopion: “The Syrian government is really hitting a new low, now using incredibly powerful ballistic missiles in cities. The four strikes that hit Aleppo last week obliterated entire parts of these neighborhoods. We have absolutely no sign that there were any legitimate military targets in these areas, so either the government is deliberately targeting civilians or at the very least it’s acting with a complete disregard for the lives of its own civilians.”