PHOTO: Burning car after double suicide bombing in Hasakah city on Friday night

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At least 100 people were killed across Syria on Friday, with the death toll spiking because of regime airstrikes and a double suicide bombing.

The Local Coordinating Committees reported that 37 people died in Hasakah Province in eastern Syria, 36 in Damascus and its suburbs, and 15 in Idlib Province in the northwest.

Among the dead were 15 people in a mosque in Muntif in Idlib Province, struck during Friday Prayers. Scores were wounded.

State media said, “[Military] units eliminated 20 terrorists in Muntif”.

In Hasakah city, more than 30 people were killed and dozens wounded when two motorcycle bombers detonated their explosives.

Redur Xelil, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia, said the Islamic State was responsible for the attack, killing mostly women and children.

The Kurdish site Rudaw put the death toll at 35, with at least 150 wounded. It said the bombs targeted New Year celebrations outside the offices of the Kurdish groups TEV-DEM and the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria.

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