Car bomb hits Syria hospital near Turkey

A car bomb explosion hit a hospital on Syria's border with Turkey Sunday, killing one person and wounding several others, said a monitoring group. "One person was killed and 15 others wounded in a car bomb attack in the parking lot of the Orient hospital," near the rebel-held, border town of Atmeh, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A Turkish official confirmed the report, and said 10 people were then taken to hospital in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli. Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, an activist said "everyone is accusing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)." Rebels launched a war against ISIL in early January. While the jihadists were initially welcomed among the ranks of Syrian opposition fighters seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, ISIL became widely hated by dissidents for its abuses and quest for hegemony. Since early January, the group has carried out dozens of attacks targeting opposition areas. Elsewhere in the war-ravaged country, regime warplanes carried out air strikes against rebel areas of Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, said the Observatory. Sunday's strikes come a day after at least four people, including two children, were killed in an air raid targeting Sheikh Eissa in the northern province of Aleppo, the group added. More than 140,000 people have been killed in Syria's nearly three-year war, and millions more forced to flee their homes. Source: AFP