Al Qaeda splinter group executes 13 in Syria -report

Syrian activists say a car bomb at a mosque in a southern village has killed dozens of people, while state media confirms 3 killed in the attack in Daraa province.
    
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which uses a wide network of local activists to track violence in the country, says 32 people were killed and dozens wounded in the blast in the village of Yadouda.
     
State-run TV confirmed there a car bomb went off outside a mosque in Yadouda, saying it killed at least three people.
     
An activist in southern Syria, Jamal al-Golani, said the car bomb exploded as worshipers were leaving the mosque after attending the Friday prayers.
     
He had a list of 18 names, saying they were killed in the blast.
     
Such attacks on mosques are not uncommon in Syria and the government and opposition have blamed each other for the blasts.

This comes as an al Qaeda splinter group in Syria executed at least 13 people including relatives of fighters from rival rebel groups before withdrawing from a town near Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The London-based monitoring group said the men killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants included rebels who were detained by ISIL after laying down their arms. The Observatory said their bodies had been thrown into a well.

It did not say when the incident took place in Haritan, just northwest of Aleppo, one of the most contested areas in an almost three-year-old civil war between insurgents and the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Several Islamist and more secular rebel factions joined forces in January for an offensive to try to push their former ISIL allies out of rebel-held regions in northern and eastern Syria.

ISIL, which has attracted many foreign militants into its ranks, is a small but powerful fighting force in Syria and also operates in neighboring Iraq. It has alienated many civilians and opposition activists by imposing harsh rulings against dissent, even beheading its opponents, in areas it controls.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that rebels dug tunnels under the Carlton Hotel in Aleppo, north of Syria, and blew them up, killing at least five Syrian regime soldiers and injuring 18.

The Carlton Hotel is located near Aleppo's historical citadel and one was of the most prestigious hotels in the city.

This as battles took place between Syrian regime forces and rebels in the city, killing several opposition fighters.