LATEST: Video — Insurgents Capture Regime Post in Quneitra Offensive

Activists report that scores of people, mostly civilians, were killed on Saturday when regime warplanes bombed the Islamic State-controlled city of Raqqa in northern Syria.

Witnesses reported eight airstrikes on the city, the largest outside regime control. The opposition Local Coordination Committees reported 50 deaths. Customers at a bakery and a family of eight, including four children, were reportedly among the casualties.

The Islamic State, which has advanced against insurgents this summer in eastern and northern Syria, had an effective non-aggression arrangement with the Syrian regime until the spring. However, the jihadists then moved on regime positions, taking military bases and resources including oil and gas fields.

Two weeks ago, the jihadists seized Tabqa Airbase, the last position of the Syrian military in Raqqa Province, killing and executing large numbers of Syrian troops.

The strikes on Saturday were the first notable attacks since mid-August by the Syrian air force on Raqqa.

Across the country, 107 people were killed on Saturday, including 19 in Damascus and its suburbs and 13 in Hama Province, according to the LCC.

Video: Insurgents Capture Regime Post in Quneitra Offensive

Continuing their offensive in Quneitra Province in southwest Syria, insurgents have taken a Syrian military post between Majduliyah — where they advanced on Friday with the capture of a regime base in a hospital — and Tel al-Harra (see map):

Insurgents announced on Thursday that they were renewing the offensive, which including the Free Syrian Army, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the Islamic Front. The opposition has taken much of Quneitra Province, including Quneitra city and the regime’s border crossings with the Israeli demilitarized zone, this summer.

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The insurgents’ next target may be the Tel al-Harra hilltop, where units of the regime’s 15th Brigade are positioned.

The insurgent capture of the checkpoint at the Majduliah Hospital:

Islamic State Executes 2nd of 19 Captured Lebanese Soldiers

The Islamic State has reportedly executed a second Lebanese soldier, among 19 seized by the jihadists from the border town of Arsal last month.

Video on social media showed the beheading. A statement said the victim was named Abbas Medlij.

The jihadists executed another soldier on August 30, just before it beheaded a second US journalist, Stephen Sotloff.

Relatives of the troops demonstrated on Saturday to demand that the Lebanese Government does more to secure their release. A video accompanying the August 30 exeuction included nine other soldiers begging for their lives.

The Lebanese military fought a week-long battle with the Islamic State last month when the jihadists moved into Arsal in the eastern Bekaa Valley, just inside the border with Syria. The Lebanese army claimed it killed 50 of the jihadists, but some fighters had already withdrawn with the captured soldiers.