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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 20 members of extremist group Islamic State (IS) were killed in Wednesday by Syrian air force raids against the group’s bastion in the city of Raqa.
Syrian rebels struck and killed 14 people in overnight strikes in the village ofKhatab in the province of Hama, the Observatory and state media said.
“At least 20 members of IS were killed and others were injured in air strikes… targeting an IS training base in Raqa”, the Observatory said. Fourteen IS military vehicles were also destroyed in the strikes, the Observatory added.
Rebel forces have been battling the IS since January. President Bashar Assad’s regime has, for its part, escalated attacks against the militant group’s positions since it led the extremist offensive in neighbor Iraq. For their part, Syrian Kurds have been battling the IS since 2013.
A Tunisian extremist on Wednesday perpetrated a suicide car bomb attack in the Kurdish town of Ain Eissa in Syria, killing four Kurdish fighters; it came only a day after 22 IS militants and 18 members belonging to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) were killed due to fighting in a Kurdish part of Aleppo.
Only a few hours earlier, Syrian state television said rebel forces carried out a “massacre” that included children and women, while the Observatory said that seven women and seven men were “executed” by rebel forces. It also said that rebel forces accused residents of the village of Khatab of “collaboration with the criminal regime”, and executed those 14 people.
Meanwhile, in the city of Aleppo, four people, including a media activist, died, and dozens others were wounded in air raids on rebel-controlled regions, the Observatory said.
Aleppo has been under massive aerial fire since December. The Observatory said that by May, around 2,000 civilians, 500 of them children, were killed in air strikes, which several rights groups have denounced as a “war crime” for targeting both civilian and military personnel.