13 非軍事のs killed in bus attack in eastern Syria
BEIRUT (AP) ― A Syrian 政府 airstrike 攻撃する，衝突する a bus carrying 非軍事のs in eastern Syria on Wednesday, 殺人，大当り at least 13 people, most of them children, 対立 行動主義者s said.
But the 政府 in the 資本／首都, Damascus, 非難するd the Islamic 明言する／公表する group for the 出来事/事件, 述べるing it as "yet another 大虐殺" committed by the 極端論者 group.
行動主義者s said the 航空機-解雇する／砲火／射撃d ミサイル struck the bus in the village of Shoula as it was traveling to Damascus from the eastern Deir el-Zour 州.
FILE - In this June 16, 2014 とじ込み／提出する photo, デモ参加者／実演宣伝者s 詠唱する プロの／賛成の-Islamic 明言する／公表する group スローガンs as they carry th e group's 旗s in 前線 of the 地方の 政府 （警察，軍隊などの）本部 in Mosul, 225 miles (360 キロメーターs) northwest of Baghdad. The Islamic 明言する／公表する group 持つ／拘留するs 概略で a third of Iraq and Syria, 含むing several strategically important cities like Fallujah and Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. (AP Photo, とじ込み／提出する)
The 非軍事のs on the bus were the 最新の 犠牲者s in Syria's civil war, which is now in its fourth year and which has killed more than 190,000 people, によれば the 国際連合.
The 衝突 has pitted 軍隊s loyal to 大統領 Bashar Assad against 反逆者／反逆するs and others fighting to 倒れる him, 含むing ますます powerful Islamic 極端論者 groups. One of the 交戦的な groups, the al-Qaida-脱退／分離 Islamic 明言する／公表する, has taken over 概略で a third of both Syria and Iraq, and 宣言するd a self-styled caliphate spanning the Iraq-Syria 国境.
The 地元の 調整's 委員会s group said 13 people were killed in Wednesday's airstrike, while the Britain-based Syrian 観測所 for Human 権利s put the death （死傷者）数 at 16, 含むing 10 children. It says the death （死傷者）数 was likely to rise because there were many 負傷させるd.
Syrian 政府 airstrikes frequently 的 対立-held areas of the country. Eastern Syria is controlled for the most part by the Islamic 明言する／公表する group.
The Syrian 政府, in a 声明 on 明言する／公表する TV, 非難するd the Islamic 明言する／公表する group for the "大虐殺" in Shoula. It also put the death （死傷者）数 at 13 and said most of the 犠牲者s were women and children.
Assad's 軍隊s have recently stepped up their attacks against the Islamic 明言する／公表する group while the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs is 爆破 the 交戦的な group's positions in Iraq. Washington is also considering 延長するing its airstrikes to 的 the group in Syria.
On Tuesday, Islamic 明言する／公表する 極端論者s 解放（する）d a ビデオ showing the beheading of a second American 新聞記者／雑誌記者, Steven Sotloff, and 警告するd 大統領 Barack Obama that continuing airstrikes against the group in Iraq will be met with the 殺人，大当り of more Western 捕虜s.
The （映画の）フィート数 ― 描写するing what the U.S. called a sickening 行為／法令／行動する of brutality ― was 地位，任命するd two weeks after the 解放（する） of ビデオ showing the 殺人，大当り of James Foley and just days after Sotloff's mother pleaded for his life.
