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Government helicopters and warplanes carried out overnight air strikes on the town of al-Bab in Syria’s Aleppo province, causing several deaths, activists said yesterday.
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdurrahman said there had been 10 strikes, including seven barrel bombs dropped from helicopters, on the town controlled by Islamic State (Isis) extremists.
He said that at least 21 people had been killed and more than 100 wounded.
The anti-government Aleppo Media Centre put the death toll at 30, with 85 wounded.
Mr Abdurrahman reported that more than 1,000 people have been killed in the northern border town of Kobane, including 609 Islamic State militants.
The toll includes 363 fighters from the YPG Kurdish militia, as well as 24 civilians and more than a dozen anti-Assad rebels.
The US is also leading an aerial campaign against Isis and other extremists in Syria but insists that it does not co-ordinate its attacks with Damascus.
