Syria

US aid earmarked for moderate rebel groups, including weapons, vehicles, and communications equipment, is being distributed in Syria by contractors directed by US officials in Turkey. The Al Nusrah Front stormed a village in Homs, killing 20 civilians. Regime forces bombed strongholds of rebels and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in a village in Hama; ISIL has taken over several checkpoints, and an air defense and ammunition site in Hama. Regime forces clashed with Al Nusrah and several rebel factions near Deir Azzor military airport. The sharia council in al Qneitra province executed a brigadier general. A regime strike on a field hospital in Aleppo killed at least 11 people, including a doctor.

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