<span style="color: #222222;">In Syria, more than 80 persons were killed in clashes between the Government and rebel forces in the northwest Hama region yesterday.<br />''<br />''Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said clashes raged after a small advance by rebel-led forces overnight.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, in nearby Afrin, a car bombing killed 13 people in the latest violence to hit the city that Turkey-backed rebels seized last year from Kurdish fighters. </span><br />