Nusra Front, Soldiers Clash In Aleppo

Militants from the Nusra Front, Al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria, have killed more than two dozen Syrian soldiers in Aleppo province, reports the Tasnim news agency (Iran).

A terrorist detonated his explosives Monday evening near an orphanage in the Jamiyet al-Zahra neighborhood of Aleppo where the Syrian troops are stationed, said the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Fighting broke out after the explosion, said the monitoring group.

Other accounts told the...