敘俄戰機猛擊反叛目標，導致數十人死傷

Warplanes of the Syrian government and its Russian allies pounded rebel targets across the country on Saturday, killing scores of people, including inmates at a rebel-held women's prison in the northwestern city of Idlib.

Details of the overnight prison strike remained sketchy Saturday. But monitors from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the prison dead included 16 prisoners and prison staff. The Observatory said some of the detainees were killed by prison guards as they attempted to flee after the airstrikes.

Separately, monitors said government forces targeted rebel positions east of Damascus, where at least 16 people were killed and 50 others wounded in the town of Hamoria.

The government offensive, described as some of the heaviest fighting in weeks, comes days after rebels seeking to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad launched a surprise assault on Damascus by burrowing into the capital through tunnels.

Concurrent attacks in recent days to the north targeted Hama province, where insurgents have seized about a dozen towns and villages since Monday. The Observatory said rebels had advanced by Wednesday to within several kilometers of a government airbase outside the city.

But monitors reported Saturday that heavy government rocket fire had forced rebels to withdraw from some of their forward positions.敘利亞政府的戰機和俄羅斯盟軍週六對敘利亞各地的反叛武裝目標進行猛擊，打死幾十人，包括西北部伊德利卜市反叛武裝控制下的女子監獄的犯人。

有關夜間的監獄襲擊細節星期六不甚明朗。但是敘利亞人權瞭望臺的監督員說，死者包括16名監獄犯人和工作人員。該機構說，一些被押犯空襲後因試圖逃跑被獄警打死。

此外，監督人員說，政府軍把大馬士革以東反叛武裝的陣地作爲攻擊目標，那裏至少有16人被打死，哈莫里亞鎮另有50人受傷。

一些人形容這是幾周來政府進行的最猛烈的一次攻勢。幾天前，試圖推翻阿薩德總統政府的反叛武裝通過挖通隧道進入首都，對大馬士革進行了突襲。

最近幾天，北部同時發生了針對哈馬省的多起襲擊。自星期一以來，那裏的反叛分子奪取了大約10幾個城鎮和村莊。敘利亞人權瞭望臺說，到上週三的時候，反叛武裝已經進發到該市郊外政府空軍基地幾公里之內的地方。

但是，監督員週六說，政府猛烈的火箭炮火迫使反叛分子從他們的一些前方陣地撤離。