An international rights group says the Syrian regime has been carrying out indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate airstrikes against civilians that have killed at least 4,300 people since last summer.

Clashes killed five people overnight in the flashpoint Lebanese city of Tripoli, a security official said on Friday, with the Army reporting a soldier was among the dead.

At least two shells and one missile fired in fighting in Syria landed inside Lebanon today, residents and security sources said, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.

Clashes between Syrian rebels and regime forces erupted today near a village where UN peacekeepers are being held hostage, an activist said, possibly complicating efforts to free them.

An international human rights organisation says the Syrian military fired at least four ballistic missiles into the embattled northern city of Aleppo over the past week, killing more than 140 people, including 70 children.

A suicide car bomb blew up at an army checkpoint in northeastern Damascus, leaving five soldiers killed, a watchdog said, as rebels pressed toward the centre of the capital.

Syria threatened today to retaliate for an Israeli airstrike and its ally Iran said the Jewish state will regret the attack.

Syria's state news agency said today that a bomb blast near a school in a Damascus suburb killed 16 people, at least half of them women and children.

New footage posted on the Internet appears to have been filmed by a Syrian rebel who points the camera along the barrel of his gun as he shoots 10 unarmed prisoners.

The video, posted on YouTube on T

New footage posted on the Internet appears to have been filmed by a Syrian rebel who points the camera along the barrel of his gun as he shoots 10 unarmed prisoners.

The video, posted on YouTube on T