(VOVWORLD) - Israeli air strikes on Syria’s northern province of Aleppo have killed 42 people, 36 of them Syrian soldiers, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
 Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in Syria. (Photo: AFP/VNA) |
The monitoring group said it was the highest number of dead among Syrian forces in a single such "Israeli attack".
The attacks on Friday targeted several areas in Aleppo’s countryside, Syria’s Ministry of Defence said. It did not provide casualty figures, only saying a number of civilians and military personnel were killed and property was damaged after Israel and unnamed armed groups carried out the strikes, according to Syria’s state news agency SANA.