Clashes kill over 80 persons in northwest Syria

In Syria, more than 80 persons were killed in clashes between the Government and rebel forces in the northwest Hama region yesterday.

Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said clashes raged after a small advance by rebel-led



forces overnight.

Meanwhile, in nearby Afrin, a car bombing killed 13 people in the latest violence to hit the city that Turkey-backed rebels seized last year from Kurdish fighters.