Syria: Scores killed as rebel factions continue Fighting in Aleppo
Clashes between rival rebel factions have left over 44 fighters dead in battles to control the city of Aleppo. 
Fighting has been on for three days between Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) and a rival group formerly known as Ghurabaa al-Sham.
Rebel groups have become increasingly fractured, and enabling “terrorist” fighters to assume prominent roles in battle to wrestle power from President Al-Bashir Assad.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday 14 of the dead belonged to ISIS, which was able to control three neighbourhoods in Aleppo.
In another development, a child was killed while several people were injured after two mortar shells hit Syria’s capital near a hotel where international chemical weapons inspectors and United Nations staff are staying, state media and a hotel guest said on Saturday.
The blasts in the upscale Abu Roumaneh area of Damascus killed an eight-year-old girl and wounded 11 other people. The girl was in her family car near the school when she was killed.
The blasts struck some 300 meters away from the Four Seasons Hotel where the chemical weapons inspectors and UN staff are staying.
Syrian rebels routinely fire mortar shells from the outskirts of Damascus at city neighbourhoods controlled by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.
