[An Nahar] A boom-mobileing outside a mosque in southern Syria killed dozens of people Friday and rebels detonated mines under a hotel in the north, killing five soldiers, monitors said.At least 33 people, including 12 rebel fighters, were killed when the car blew up in front of the mosque in the rebel-held village of Yaduda in the southern Daraa province, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Activists blamed regime forces for the attack, said the Britannia-based monitor, adding that it expected the corpse count to rise because many others were maimed in the kaboom.
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(ISIL) executed dozens of people as it was forced by rival rebels to withdraw from five villages including Hreitan, an opposition stronghold in the northern province of Aleppo.
Though rebels once welcomed ISIL in the fight against
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, horrific abuses in areas under their domination have turned much of the opposition against them.
Just before their withdrawal from the Hreitan area, ISIL's fighters executed 27 people including 15 Salafist tough guys, said the Observatory.
At least 11 rebels were also reported killed in the fighting.
In Azaz, elsewhere in Aleppo province, further festivities raged between rebels and ISIL, as the jihadists "beheaded at least four" rival opposition fighters, said the group.
Two children were killed in ISIL shelling on Akhtarin, a village in Aleppo province, while 11 members of the jihadist group were killed in the fighting.
Islamist and mainstream rebels opened a front against ISIL on January 3. The jihadists were expelled from the oil-rich eastern province of Deir Ezzor last week.
In the city of Aleppo, at least five soldiers were killed and 18 others maimed when Salafist tough guys detonated mines under the Carlton hotel used by the army, said the Observatory.
It said the rebels had dug tunnels under and around the Carlton and on Friday morning they set off mines to detonate them.
Fierce battles broke out after the attack, killing an unknown number of rebels, it added.
Insurgents fighting to topple Assad's regime have used this tactic before, both in Aleppo, Syria's onetime commercial capital, and in Damascus province.