[Al Ahram] A Syrian regime air strike on a field hospital in the northern province of Aleppo killed at least 11 people on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said."At least 11 people, including a doctor... were killed in an air strike on a field hospital in Al-Bab," the Britannia-based monitoring group said.
On Monday, regime air strikes hit a school in the town, in northeast Aleppo province, which was being used as a base by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant -- an Al-Qaeda affiliate.
Elsewhere, jihadists killed at least 20 civilians in the central province of Homs on Tuesday, with members of the Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front among the assailants, said the Observatory.
Fighters from Al-Nusra and another rebel group attacked three Alawite villages near the city of Homs, said the group which gets its information from a network of activists, lawyers and medics.
"Fierce festivities broke out between rebels and army troops," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The rebels entered the village of Maksar al-Hissan and killed 16 members of the Alawite sect, the religious community to which
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They also killed four Bedouin residents of the village, the Observatory said.
Troops retook the village on Tuesday night, after festivities in which they lost two men and killed several members of Al-Nusra.
The region, which is mostly home to Alawites and Bedouin communities, has been largely free of fighting during the past year.