The Syrian military has stepped up air strikes on rebel areas dramatically, carrying out more than 200 in recent days, opposition activists say.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the raids took place mostly in western areas between midnight on Sunday and noon on Tuesday.
The UK-based group said there were many casualties, but did not give a figure.
The intensified strikes come as US-led forces continue to bomb Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria and Iraq.
US and Arab jets have been attacking IS positions in around the northern Syrian town of Kobane, where Kurdish fighters are under siege.
Overnight, US officials said they were examining a video that appeared to show IS fighters in possession of a bundle of military aid dropped by aircraft near Kobane on Sunday.
A Pentagon spokesman said the vast majority of the bundles had ended up in the Kurds' hands but he was aware of one that had not.
Rapid increaseThe Syrian air force's strikes targeted rebel-held areas in Quneitra, Deraa, the Damascus countryside, Hama, Idlib and Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory said.
The provinces stretch from the country's south-west through the capital, Damascus, to the far north-west.
The eastern province of Deir al-Zour, where government forces have been battling IS militants, was also bombed over the same period.
At least eight people were also reportedly killed on Tuesday in an air raid on a rebel-held town along Syria's southern border with Jordan.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, an opposition activist network, said government planes had dropped explosives-laden canisters on Nassib.
The number of casualties was likely to rise as victims were trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings, it added.
The Syrian Observatory says the air force carries out 12 to 20 strikes a day on average so the 210 that took place over 36 hours represent a rapid increase.
Analysts said the military might be stepping up its air campaign in an effort to weaken rebel groups before they began receiving training and equipment from the US and its allies so that they can take the fight to IS on the ground in Syria.
More than 191,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted in March 2011. Another nine million people have been driven from their homes.
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