Syria: Car bomb in Hama kills 50 pro-regime fighters and air strike kill 20 rebels
Scores of Syrian soldiers have been killed by a suicide car bomb in the central province of Hama and at least 20 rebel fighters were killed in an air strike in the northwest province of Idlib, activists have said.
Monday’s clashes came as the main Syrian opposition, the Syrian National Council (SNC), in makeover talks in Qatar, agreed to expand its structure to accommodate 13 other groups, a spokesman said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing in the village of Ziyara in the central province of Hama was carried out by Jabhat al-Nusra, an Islamist group.
The bombing killed more than 50 people, according to the group, a claim which cannot be independently verified.