AN air strike has killed at least 16 people in a majority Kurdish village in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakeh, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Sixteen people were martyred after a warplane targeted the village of Haddad, which is majority Kurdish ... including at least three children and two women," the opposition British-based group said on Sunday.
Video footage uploaded by activists on YouTube showed the aftermath of an initial attack, with women and children screaming as they rushed out of a badly damaged house.
As men arrived to help carry the injured, the sound of another explosion can be heard and dust rises up around the building.
Several women carrying children emerge from one home, outside which at least two bodies can be seen, at least one apparently that of a child, a pool of blood next to his head.
In northern Syria, the Kurdish population has largely observed a careful compromise with regime and rebel forces, fighting alongside neither, in return for security and semi-autonomy over majority Kurdish areas.
But there have been reports in recent weeks of Kurdish fighters joining the battle with Syrian rebels in certain areas, including the Kurdish Sheikh Maqsud district of Aleppo.
Meanwhile Syrian troops have broken a months-long rebel siege on two key military bases in the northwestern province of Idlib, killing at least 21 opposition fighters, activists say.
"Regime forces managed to lift the siege on the Wadi Deif and Hamdiya military camps after the army went around the rebel fighters and attacked them from behind," the Observatory group said on Sunday.
At least 21 rebels were killed in the attack, which focused on the village of Babulin, the group said.
Troops "now control two hilltops on either side of the Damascus-Aleppo international highway" reopening a supply route for the army, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Elsewhere in the country, the group cited air raids on the al-Hajar al-Aswad suburb of southern Damascus, as well as continued shelling of the Daraya suburb, where regime forces have been struggling to oust rebels.
Violence throughout Syria killed 138 people on Saturday, according to a tally from the Observatory, which says it relies on a network of doctors and activists for its figures.
Syrian opposition activists meanwhile say President Bashar al-Assad's forces have destroyed the minaret of the historic Omari mosque in Daraa, where Syria's uprising erupted two years ago.
In amateur video footage the activists uploaded to YouTube, the mosque can be seen at the end of a street, its towering minaret toppling over after apparent shelling and crumbling into rubble and dust.
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