A top UN official said both sides in the conflict risk prosecution as war criminals for atrocities against children. A reporter for the pro-rebel Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was killed in Aleppo. Al Nusrah Front fighters targeted a military branch and a checkpoint with two suicide car bombs in Homs. Among a number of foreign fighter passports found at an abandoned Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant base in Ras el-Ein was that of an American. Five Islamist fighters were killed in the sixth consecutive day of clashes in Hasakah between the Kurdish YPG and the Al Nusrah Front, ISIL, and allied rebel units. Clashes are ongoing between the YPG and Islamist fighters in Raqqah. Al Nusrah released a rebel activist who had been organizing anti-Nusrah units in Aleppo. The emir of the Al Nusrah Front warned Shiites against siding with Hezbollah in Syria.
