Relief workers estimate that only 300,000 people remain in rebel-held parts of the city.In April alone activists documented 650 barrel bomb and 100 missile attacks.
The documented use of barrel bombs contradicts statements made this month by the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, who denied the use of the improvised bombs in an interview with the BBC.
The use of the barrel bombs was documented in Aleppo and Daraa, two key battlegrounds in the civil war and the sites of recent regime offensives that attempted to turn the tide of the conflict but were beaten back by the opposition.
The price of a barrel of oil on the open market is well documented (currently it's about $107 for a barrel of Brent crude), but how this figure is broken down into its component parts is much harder to determine.
The Syrian President was more evasive when questioned about government forces' use of devastating barrel bombs, dismissing well documented accounts of thousands being killed after the weapons were dropped indiscriminately onto rebel-held areas as a "childish story".
The most documented example pertains two his genes, hisA and hisF, encoding two 8 barrel (TIM-barrel) proteins [ 18].
In the interview, Assad also denied using barrel bombs against opposition forces and civilians despite widely documented evidence of the use of such devices being dropped from helicopters.
According to NGOs working on documentation, casualties from aerial strikes, ground shelling and explosions count for over 50percentt of total documented deaths in 2014, a substantial part of which are caused by barrel bombs.
A police briefing document on project Double Barrel shows that from 1 July to 16 August, 250 officers were relieved from their duties in metro Manila because of suspected links to the drug trade.
The crew's main concern was to destroy all sensitive material on board before it fell into enemy hands, but without access to modern paper shredders, they had to burn documents in metal barrels or cans - a slow and painstaking process.
