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A Syrian warplane has struck targets near the border with Lebanon, killing at least nine people and wounding nine others, Lebanon’s state-run news agency said.
A Lebanese security official in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa region confirmed Saturday’s airstrike, adding that those killed included six members of the same family.
Attacks mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Iraq killed at least 54 people on Monday, while security forces killed 10 militants, officials said, as the interior ministry warned of civil war.
More than 800 people have now been killed in violence so far this month, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources–an average of upwards of 27 a day.
On Sunday, Syria forces gained control over most of the western city’s Khaldiyeh area, where they had already captured the Khalid bin Walid Mosque on Saturday.
The Syrian army says the militants had planted tens of explosive devices inside the mosque building.
Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks on two Iraqi prisons that freed hundreds of inmates, including some believed to be senior members of the militant group’s leadership.
An online statement posted on July 23 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — the merged al-Qaeda affiliates in Iraq and Syria — said it had carried out the missions after months of preparations.
Fighting raged on Sunday close to Aleppo international airport and nearby air bases as the battle for Syria’s second city entered its second year, a monitoring group said.
“Fierce clashes broke out at dawn near Aleppo international airport and Nairab air base,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also reporting fighting in the Suleiman Halabi district of the city.