40 dead from government, militant forces in Syria

Clashes between government forces and those of Al-Nusra Front, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, resulted in the death of forty from both sides, announced on Friday a press statement by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Up to 26 government fighters met their deaths at the hands of Al-Nusra militants in an attack by the latter in an area known as Beit Tima in the Damascus country-side, said the statement.
On the other hand 14 Nusra militants got killed in the same attack.
In a separate SOHR statement, an ISIL militant blew himself up in a booby-trapped car in the area of Kri Fati yesterday killing four fighters from units protecting the Kurdish people there.
Clashes between government forces and ISIL militants continued through last night in the city of Kobane, which received no less than 30 mortar attacks by the militants. Moreover Peshmerga fighters shelled ISIL locations in the eastern part of the city.
Meanwhile government planes launched air attacks against opposition forces in a number of cities and towns including Aleppo, Dar'aa, Hama, and Homs.