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Battles in Damascus intensified Thursday, as the regime shelled suburbs surrounding the city, and fierce clashes between rebels and the army erupted in the outer suburbs, activists said.
By early afternoon 56 people had been killed across the country, including seven women and two children, and 12 in Damascus and suburbs, according to the Local Coordination Committees network.
Gaza militants have fired a rocket into southern Israel after the death in custody of a Palestinian who suffered from cancer, Israeli police say.
“There was a rocket that was fired,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP on Tuesday. “It landed in an open area,” he said, adding there were no immediate reports of casualties or property damage.
Syrian rebels have taken control of a strategic town near the border with Jordan, the British Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.
After 24 hours of fighting, during which 16 rebels and several others were killed, opposition forces captured Dael in Daraa province, Voice of America reported.
An Iraqi militant group linked to al-Qaeda claimed responsibility on Wednesday for attacks that killed dozens of people across the country the day before, AP reported.
According to the news agency, al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch, the Islamic State of Iraq, posted a statement on their website claiming responsibility for Tuesday's string of bombings, which killed a reported total of 65.
Syrian war jets carried out airstrikes on Monday against rebels’ positions at the country’s borders with Lebanon, a move that came just days after the Syrian Foreign Ministry warned that the army’s patience was running thin with rebel fighters sneaking into Syria from Lebanon, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV said.
The army targeted rebels’ positions at the villages located to the northeast of the borders with Lebanon, the TV said, noting that the army’s airstrike didn’t reach Lebanese territories.