A car bombing yesterday by an al Qaeda-linked group killed at least 60 Syrian soldiers near a military base by Aleppo’s airport, activists claimed. Some 700,000 civilians in Aleppo’s Afrin district have been besieged by rebels since May 25. Rebels assassinated a college dean in al Hasaka city; the car of a female university lecturer was bombed in Damascus. A child fighter with the Islamic state of Iraq and al-Sham in Aleppo died of battle injuries. A Grad missile struck the house of an MP in Abu Dala, killing 20 people. Hezbollah forces are fighting alongside regime troops in Damascus, Homs, and Aleppo. Regime bombardments continued in Aleppo, Damascus, Homs, Idlib, Hama, Reef Damashq, and Raqqah. G-8 nations meeting on Syria pledged more humanitarian aid and called for urgent peace talks to end the conflict.
