ISIL kills 37 rival insurgents in Syria's Aleppo province: Monitor

BEIRUT - Reuters

A general view taken from Aleppo's Syrian regime-controlled neighbourdhood of Karm al-Jabal shows the war-wracked city's historic citadel in the background on July 30, 2015. AFP Photo

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters killed at least 37 rival insurgents in an overnight attack in Syria's Aleppo province and 20 fighters remain missing, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on August 9. 

Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Observatory, said that late on August 8 a suicide bomber from the hardline group blew himself up in a military post held by a group of rival insurgents in the Umm Housh village in northern Aleppo countryside. 

ISIL fighters then seized the village after heavy clashes with rival groups.