<div>In Syria, the death toll has crossed over 200 including 57 children in a pro government bombing in the rebel Eastern Ghouta.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 127 civilians, including 39 children, were killed&nbsp; yesterday alone in the bombardment – the single bloodiest day for Eastern Ghouta in four years.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Air strikes today morning killed at least 66 civilians, including 15 children, the Britain-based war monitor said. Held by rebels since 2012, Eastern Ghouta is the last opposition pocket around Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad is keen to retake it with an apparently imminent ground assault.</div>''<div></div>''<div>The UN's regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, Panos Moumtzis, said the targeting of civilians in the enclave &quot;must stop now&quot;. Syria's main opposition group condemned the government onslaught as a &quot;bloodbath&quot; and a &quot;war crime&quot;. It said it may pull out of UN-backed peace talks in protest.</div>''<div></div>''<div>On the other hand, the pro-government fighters came under bombardment from Turkey after entering the northern Afrin region, escalating a month-long offensive by Ankara.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Hundreds of Syrian pro-government forces entered the region for the first time since 2012 to face off against Turkey alongside Kurdish forces that Ankara views as an offshoot of its own internal insurgency.</div>''<div></div>''<div>More than 340,000 people have been killed since the civil war erupted in 2011 when protests against Assad's government were brutally crushed.</div>''<div><br />''</div>