Regime Airstrikes Kill 10 İn Northern Syria: Opposition

At least 10 people were killed in regime airstrikes in northern Syrian city of Raqqa on Saturday, according to a main opposition group.



Ten people were killed and a number of people were wounded in Raqqa, the main stronghold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (or ISIL) in Syria, the Syrian Revolution General Commission told The Anadolu Agency.



Also, the Coordination of Raqqa's Youth -- a group of local opposition activists -- confirmed the attack which hit an Internet cafe in the city's Ferdaws neighborhood.



The Syrian Revolution General Commission represents a unified coalition of Syrian opposition groups that aims to establish a democratic government in Syria.



The militant ISIL group has captured large swathes of land in Iraq and Syria, declaring what it calls a cross-border Islamic caliphate, killing thousands of people and displacing millions more in the process.



The opposition forces in March 2011 began protests to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a struggle that turned into a civil war in July of that year after regime forces violently suppressed protests.



More than 190,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began, according to U.N. figures published last August.



Amnesty International said more than 10 million people have been forced out of their homes, and at least four million of them have become refugees, mostly in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.



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