The Al Nusrah Front said it and a rebel battalion attacked three villages in eastern Homs last week; 22 civilians were killed. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant executed two Alawite men in Raqqah city. A rebel battalion in Raqqah city detained a rebel commander for publishing articles critical of the rebel forces. A regime helicopter that was dropping explosive barrels on an important rebel stronghold in Latakia near the Turkish border was shot down, possibly by a Turkish warplane; rebels are said to have captured one of the pilots and to be looking for the other. The Free Syrian Army's Tahrir Souriya brigade stormed a village in Hasaka yesterday alongside the Al Nusrah Front.
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