France says Syria dropping barrels of TNT on neighborhoods
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}France's foreign minister says Syria's air force is using so-called barrel bombs — makeshift weapons consisting of containers stuffed with TNT — to heavily damage neighborhoods.
Laurent Fabius said Wednesday that Syrian leader Bashar Assad's regime has "entered a new phase in the violence by using MIG (aircraft) and dropping barrels of TNT."
He confirmed what delegates from rebel-held zones in Syria were saying as a meeting got under way in Paris aimed at extending a French initiative of direct aid to local councils in so-called liberated zones of Syria. Some 20 countries were taking part in the meeting.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Earlier this month, Syrian refugees said their villages in Homs province had come under heavy air attack from barrel bombs.