Human rights group Amnesty International says artillery and mortar fire and airstrikes by regime forces in the northern city of Aleppo are killing mostly civilians, including children.

A new Amnesty report released Thursday said air and artillery strikes against residential neighborhoods are indiscriminate attacks that seriously endanger civilians.

Government troops and opposition forces have been fighting in Aleppo for a month after opposition forces took over several neighborhoods.

Amnesty says that among the dead are 10 members of one family, seven of them children. Their home was totally destroyed in two airstrikes on Aug. 6. It said bodies of mostly young men, most of the time handcuffed and shot in the head, have been frequently found near the powerful Air Force Intelligence, which is a government-controlled area.

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A Syrian boy, who fled his home with his family in Anadan due to the fighting, steps on a poster showing Syrian president Bashar Assad, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.

Source: AP