Syrian activists: Strikes, clashes across country
By JAMAL HALABYBy JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press?
?In this image taken from video obtained from the Sham News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows bodies of some of the victims of an attack on the town of Sanamein, Syria lie on the ground during a funeral on Thursday, April 11, 2013. Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive in the south, capturing the town and killing at least 45 people including women and children, opposition activists said Thursday. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)
In this image taken from video obtained from the Sham News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows bodies of some of the victims of an attack on the town of Sanamein, Syria lie on the ground during a funeral on Thursday, April 11, 2013. Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive in the south, capturing the town and killing at least 45 people including women and children, opposition activists said Thursday. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)
In this image taken from video obtained from the Sham News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows bodies of some of the victims of an attack on the town of Sanamein, Syria lie on the ground during a funeral on Thursday, April 11, 2013. Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive in the south, capturing the town and killing at least 45 people including women and children, opposition activists said Thursday. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)
This image taken from video obtained from the Sham News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows bodies of some of the victims of an attack on the town of Sanamein, Syria during a funeral on Thursday, April 11, 2013. Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive in the south, capturing the town and killing at least 45 people including women and children, opposition activists said Thursday. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)
FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 file photo, a Syrian woman stands amid the ruins of her house which was destroyed in an airstrike by government warplanes a few days earlier, killing 11 members of her family, in the neighborhood of Ansari, Aleppo, Syria. President Bashar Assad has exploited his greatest advantage on the battlefield _ his air power _ to push back rebel advances and prevent the opposition from setting up a rival government in its northern stronghold. Along the way, fighter jets and helicopters bombed bakeries, makeshift hospitals and residential areas, according to a new report by a U.S.-based rights group released Thursday, April 11, 2013 accusing the regime of committing war crimes with indiscriminate airstrikes that have killed more than 4000 since summer. (AP Photo/Abdullah al-Yassin, File)
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows destroyed homes in a government airstrike and shelling, in the neighborhood of Marjeh in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, April. 11, 2013. A U.S.-based rights group on Thursday accused Syria of war crimes by indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate airstrikes against civilians, killing at least 4,300 people since last summer. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) ? Syrian government forces and aircraft attacked rebel strongholds across the country on Sunday, killing at least 23 people, activists said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime airstrikes targeted rebel-held areas in the predominantly Kurdish village of Hadad in the northeastern province of Hassaka. It said at least 16 people, including two women and three children, were killed.
The activist reported plumes of black smoke rising over the town and continuous army fire from ground and air attacks. He spoke on condition that he be identified only by his nickname Abu Qasem ? by which he is widely known among his comrades ? because he feared retaliation on his family.
Also in the north, the state SANA news agency said three journalists working for state TV in Aleppo province were wounded in a car bombing. Correspondent Shadi Helweh and two cameramen, Yehia Mosseli and Ahmed Suleiman, were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds, the agency said.
They were covering Syrian soldiers who were trying to stop two suicide attackers attempting to detonate a car bomb near a security headquarters in the province. SANA said the two attackers were killed, and the journalists and several other civilians were wounded.
Also on Sunday, a rebel and a civilian were killed in airstrikes and fighting in the suburbs of Damascus, the Observatory said. It also said that four civilians died after being tortured in a jail in the town of Zakyeh, without providing further details. And the Observatory said the Syrian army shot and killed a man in the southern city of Daraa.
State TV said military forces conducted operations around Damascus and in the provinces of Hassaka, Daraa, and Idlib and Aleppo.
SANA said the army seized a truck carrying rocket launchers on a highway linking Damascus with the central province of Homs.
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AP writer Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed.
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