The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday that 13 children had been among those killed in the Turkish shelling on the town, which lies 40 kilometers northeast of Aleppo.
The UK-based group said dozens of others had also been injured in the shelling.
It said that intense battles were going on between Turkish forces and allied militants on the one side and the Daesh extremists on the other.
The Observatory said Daesh (ISIS) militants are still in control of major areas in al-Bab, even though Turkish forces and their allies have captured a string of areas in the western flank of the town.
On August 24, 2016, the Turkish Air Force and special ground forces kicked off Operation Euphrates Shield inside Syria in a declared bid to rid the border area of Daesh terrorists and fighters from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Democratic Union Party (PYD).
The operation was not coordinated with the Syrian government, which has described it as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty.
Syrian army troops recapture oil field
Meanwhile, Syrian government forces have managed to wrest full control over an oil field from foreign-sponsored terrorists in the country’s central province of Homs.
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