Unidentified gunmen killed five nuclear engineers, one of them Iranian, near Damascus, according to SOHR. The Lebanese Army arrested a Free Syrian Army commander attempting to enter the country with false paperwork. The president of the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition said that Western airstrikes are weakening support of non-extremists. At least 21 people were killed and about 100 injured after a Syrian regime airstrike near Aleppo. Bashar al Assad labeled a UN-proposed ceasefire in Aleppo “worth studying.” US and coalition forces conducted 23 airstrikes from Nov. 7-10; 13 conducted near Kobane struck an Islamic State vehicle, five small units, an ammunition dump, a command and control building, and nine fighting positions.
