Barrel bomb attack in Syria's Aleppo kills 11 children

11 children were killed on Thursday in a barrel bomb attack carried out by government forces on a rebel-held neighborhood of Syria's Aleppo city, a monitor said, according to AFP.

"15 civilians, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nayrab neighborhood" in the south of Aleppo city, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor was quoted as having said.