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At least 40 people were killed and about 100 wounded when Syrian government forces fired missiles into a marketplace in a town near Damascus, a conflict monitor and a local rescue group said on Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war through a network of sources on the ground, said government forces fired 12 missiles at Douma, 15 km northeast of Damascus.
Turkey has confirmed that the country’s military has attacked fighters from the main Kurdish force in northern Syria.
Members of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) on Sunday accused the Turkish military of opening fire at its forces in Tal Abyad after the majority Arab town was included into a Kurdish enclave.
In a TV interview late on Monday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey had warned the PYD not to cross to the “west of the Euphrates and that we would hit it the moment it did.”
The IAF struck two Hamas targets in southern Gaza a few hours after a rocket attack on southern Israel. The IDF Spokesman Unit said that it viewed Hamas as being responsible for all terrorist activities in the Strip.
A rocket exploded in an open area of the Gaza border region in the South earlier Monday evening.
The Syrian army killed the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front) terrorist group, Egypt-born Abu Suleiman al-Masri in Aleppo, a source confirmed to Sputnik Saturday.
According to the source, the terrorist was killed during a fight near the Tal-al-Karsani village outside Aleppo.
Syrian troops backed by Russian air strikes battled Islamic State group fighters on Saturday in a bid to restore a key supply line to second city Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
At least 28 IS fighters and 21 troops and militia have been killed in the battle for the road that leads to the government-held sector of Aleppo city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.