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Twin ISIL suicide attacks kill 15 in north Syria

Twin "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) suicide attacks killed 15 people in Syria's northern province of Aleppo, AFP reported Sunday (March 5th).

One attacker detonated a car bomb near the ISIL-held town of Deir Hafer, killing eight regime-allied fighters late Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack.

Deir Hafer lies on a key road linking Aleppo city to the ISIL-controlled town of Khafsah, which holds the main station to pump water into Aleppo and further east to al-Raqa.

Residents of Aleppo city have been without mains water for 48 days since ISIL cut the supply.

On Sunday, regime and allied warplanes bombarded ISIL positions in support of Syrian troops, which had advanced to nine kilometres from Khafsah, the Observatory said.

They were just six kilometres from the pumping station, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.

In a second attack, ISIL said a fighter "detonated his suicide belt" in the opposition-held town of Azaz, also in Aleppo province.

The Observatory said the suicide attack "killed seven fighters and wounded several others, some of them in critical condition".

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