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The Syrian Army says Israeli airstrikes early on Friday near the northern city of Aleppo killed or wounded “a number of” people and caused damage.
An opposition war monitor said the strikes killed 42, most of them Syrian troops.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor,.
Israeli strikes hit missile depots for Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group in Aleppo’s southern suburb of Jibreen, near the Aleppo International Airport, and the nearby town of Safira, home to a sprawling military facility.
Aleppo
Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.
Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it may have been inhabited since the sixth millennium BC.
For centuries, Aleppo was the largest city in the Syrian region, and the Ottoman Empire's third-largest after Constantinople (now Istanbul) and Cairo.
The city's significance in history has been its location at one end of the Silk Road, which passed through Central Asia and Mesopotamia.
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