Syrian air strike kills at least 54

This Syrian Observatory for Human Protection under the law, which has a network of activists across Syria reporting on government violence throughout the 18-month-old revolt, cited an activist in the area saying that more than 110 everyone was dead or wounded. A video published by activists, said for being from al-Raqqa, showed black clouds of smoke rising in the wreckage of the petrol train station as bewildered residents examined the scene following a attack by a Syrian atmosphere force jet. Government forces shelled rebels next to a border crossing with Turkey some 30 km (18 miles) away for the northern fringes of al-Raqqa, every day after it was seized through the insurgents. A Reuters witness on the Turkish side with the border heard heavy gunfire and explosions nearby the Tel Abyad border post, exactly where an opposition flag still fluttered. Residents rushed towards border as the gunfire more intense. It was impossible to verify the authenticity with the activists' video, and most dangerous journalists are barred entry into Syria, making varying accounts of events difficult to verify. President Bashar al-Assad has applied helicopters and fighter jets to help fire at and bomb regions where insurgents have been running, including residential districts of the funding and Syria's main cities. Assad's allows have targeted petrol stations within rural towns and villages along with along main roads to rob rebels of fuel. Civilians have create smaller, discreet fuel outlets. Activists say in excess of 27, 000 people have been killed in a conflict that began with tranquil street protests and mushroomed into civil war after Assad attempted military force to stamp out and about the unrest. Last month ended up being the bloodiest yet. Earlier upon Thursday, Syria's information ministry said which a Syrian military helicopter that crashed nearby the capital had clipped the tail of any Syrian Arab Airlines passenger planes, but the 200 people agreeable escaped unharmed. "The helicopter struck the tail with the plane... The control tower at Damascus airport confirmed how the plane landed safely at Damascus international airport and all 200 passengers will be in good health, " a statement published for the state news channel Syria TV SET said. REBELLIOUS DAMASCUS DISTRICT RAIDED And incapacitated, security forces surrounded and raided the rebellious southern district of Damascus, arresting in excess of 100 people, and activists explained several others were shot dead. An opposition activist called Abu Salam, who lives inside Yarmouk district where rebels happen to be hiding out in recent days and nights, told Reuters that many occupants were trapped. He said tanks and soldiers had sealed all the entrances and hundreds of soldiers were searching the spot on foot and on vans mounted with heavy machineguns. "We are hiding in our homes. I am afraid to go out so I am sitting here waiting to discover if they reach my avenue, if I will be arrested or shot dead, " this individual said, adding that at least three people, two men plus a young women, were shot dead when soldiers saw them running out of a park on Thursday day. He said another five rebels identified hiding were executed. A resident who toured Yarmouk every day earlier said rebel fighters, who have been flushed out of many encircling districts, had moved into a southern portion of the district and come under intense army bombardment overnight. Assad has long maintained that foreign-backed militants happen to be leading the revolt, which started with peaceful protests but turned violent since the army fired on demonstrations along with rounded up thousands. State media said on Thurs . that soldiers had killed 100 Afghan "terrorists" inside northern city of Aleppo. Rebels in your neighborhood said that report was govt propaganda, saying that the district of Bustan al-Qasr - the location where the attack supposedly took place - will not be entered by Assad's troops. PARTIONED WORLD CANNOT HALT VIOLENCE Global and regional powers have didn't halt the violence. Iran and Russia have backed Assad while america and European allies want him toppled but shrunk from intervening in a conflict steeped in ethnic and sectarian rivalries which may spill over Syria's borders along with inflame the wider Middle Distance. Iraq denied on Thursday a Western intelligence report in spite of this Iranian aircraft and trucks acquired transported weapons and military staff members through Iraq to Syria to help Assad corral the uprising and Belarus denied selling weapons to Syria. "Iraq has confirmed it will never be involved or even helping or allowing any shipping via its air space or even land to Syria, " Iraqi govt spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters. This allegation, reported by Reuters upon Wednesday, said arms transfers were organised through the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Syria's upheaval is usually a political headache for Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim-led govt. Close to Assad's ally, Shi'ite Iran, Baghdad has resisted joining Western and Gulf Arab calls for the authoritarian leader, whose household has ruled for 42 many years, to bow out while also calling for the reform process in Syria. Baghdad's core concern is which a precipitous fall of Assad could fracture Syria along sectarian outlines and yield a hostile, hardline Sunni Muslim regime which may stir up Iraq's combustible Sunni-Shi'ite public mix. Belarus denied trying to offer weapons to Syria and violating the U. N. Security Council resolution after america imposed sanctions on a Belarusian state-owned agency. "All the accusations of this American side... have no basis and are untrue, " Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Savinykh said after america imposed sanctions on a Belarusian state-owned agency. The Syrian rebels are staying armed by Sunni Muslim says like Saudi Arabia and get other supplies and diplomatic support in the Western powers and Turkey.