Syrian air strikes on Islamic State positions kill 60 civilians
BEIRUT - Syrian government warplanes killed at least 60 civilians including a dozen children in two days of air strikes on Islamic State-held territory at the weekend, activists said on Monday.
President Bashar al-Assad's military has stepped up an aerial campaign over the last three months against Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls about a third of Syria's territory, much of it desert in the north and east.
The air strikes have hit a number of Islamic State targets but have also killed many civilians in territory under the group's control.
The death toll included 41 killed during air strikes on Saturday that hit a bakery run by Islamic State in their stronghold of Raqqa city in the north, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
