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Updated at 1:11 p.m. ET (AP) BEIRUT – Regime airstrikes hit a gas station in northern Syria Thursday, setting off a fiery explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens, opposition activists said. Amateur video showed thick black smoke engulfing the scene. Earlier Thursday, a Syrian military helicopter crashed near the capital of Damascus, and Syria’s Information Ministry said the helicopter went down after accidentally clipping the tail of a Syrian passenger plane with 200 people on board. The larger aircraft landed safely at Damascus International Airport and no one was hurt, the Information Ministry said. The airstrikes and the close call in the sky underscored the growing turmoil and violence in Syria. The country is embroiled in a civil war between forces fighting for President Bashar Assad and those trying to topple him. More than 23,000 people have been killed in the conflict, 마카오 슬롯 according to activists. In recent weeks, Assad’s regime has stepped up airstrikes in northern Syria in an attempt to dislodge rebels from areas they control there. Activists said Thursday’s airstrike hit near the town of Ain Issa, about 25 miles from the Turkish border. A day earlier, rebel fighters had seized control of a border crossing north of the town. Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said witnesses counted at least 30 bodies and said dozens of...

(CBS/AP) AKCAKALE, Turkey — Syrian rebels have seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey and pulled down the Syrian flag. An Associated Press reporter at the scene Wednesday says Syrians on the Turkish side of the border are celebrating and yelling, “I am a free Syrian!” People are moving freely across the border, 온라인카지노 crawling under barbed wire. There were fierce clashes Tuesday as rebels and regime forces fought for control of the Tal Abyad crossing. Syria’s rebels control several other border crossings into Turkey but it is believed to be the first time they have tried to take the border area in the northern province of Raqqa. More in After the Arab Spring Video: Safety, yet little hope for Syrian refugeesReports: Syrian missiles hit LebanonU.N.:Foreigners making Syrian rebels radical Taking control of border crossings helps the opposition ferry supplies into Syria and carve out an area of control. As of early September, it was believed that at least 80,000 Syrians had fled the war in their country and become refugees in the sprawling camps in Turkey. U.N.:Record 100K fled Syria in August CBS News correspondent Holly Williams reports that the Turkish government is having to build new camps and move refugees into them before they are even completed due to the huge influx of Syrians. Williams reports that of the roughly 8,000 Syrians living...