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Saturday 30 May 2015 - 15:01 Makkah mean time-12-8-1436
 Aleppo (IINA) - A series of barrel bombs dropped by Syria’s government has killed at least 45 civilians and wounded dozens in Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said.
"At least 45 civilians were killed, and dozens were wounded, when regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the city of Al-Bab and in eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo," the Britain-based Observatory said on Saturday. Al-Bab, about 40km northeast of Aleppo city, is controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, while the east of the provincial capital is in control of other rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar Al-Assad, Al Jazeera reported.
This comes a day after rebel fighters seized the last government-controlled town in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib after government forces retreated to their coastal bases, according to activists and a monitoring group. A Syrian coalition known as the Fattah Army seized the town of Ariha on Thursday, giving the group full control of Idlib province. The Fattah Army is made up of several armed groups, notably the Nusra Front. Hadi al-Abdallah, a Syrian activist reporting from Ariha, said that dozens of Syrian soldiers were killed in the clashes.
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