10/09/2012 11:51
17 people killed in Aleppo
A car bomb ripped through Syria's largest city, Aleppo, killing at least 17 people Sunday and wounding 40 in one of the main battlegrounds of the country's civil war, state-run media said.
Al Qaeda-style bombings have become increasingly common in Syria, and Western officials say there is little doubt that Islamist extremists have made inroads in the country as instability has spread. But the main fighting force looking to oust President Bashar Assad is the Free Syrian Army, a group made up largely of defected Syrian soldiers.