Rebels detonated two explosives-filled tunnels under a Syrian regime-held building in Aleppo on Tuesday, leaving "13 dead among the guards and regime forces" and wounding an unspecified number of others, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The building in Aleppo's mostly regime-controlled old city was a police station occupied by regime forces.

The European Commission said Tuesday it would release a further 50 million euros ($67 million) in humanitarian aid for Syria as the crisis there deepens.

This brings the total amount of aid this year to 150 million euros, which the EU says is aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in a conflict that has so far cost more than 170,000 lives and displaced half the population of 23 million.

Four Syrian nationals were wounded on Tuesday afternoon in Syrian raids on the Arsal plains in the Bekaa.

LBCI television said that four Syrians were wounded when Syria's jets raided the house of mayor Ali Melhem al-Hujairi in Arsal's Wadi Ajram region.

Syrian rebels pressed on with a fresh advance in the central province of Hama, as they tried to take out its military airport, a rebel commander and a monitor said Tuesday.

"The rebels are now nine kilometers (six miles) away from Hama military airport, which they want to put out of action," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman.

Four rockets hit on Tuesday the outskirts of the northeastern towns of al-Labweh and Meqraq, without causing casualties, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said that the rockets struck the hills lying between the two Shiite towns.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq said that he will hold talks with Defense Minister Samir Moqbel and Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi to implement a cabinet decision to abolish lists of wanted individuals.

In remarks to pan-Arab daily al-Hayat published on Tuesday, al-Mashnouq said his meeting with Moqbel, who is also the deputy PM, and Rifi will come after the Eid al-Fitr holidays, which end on Wednesday.

North Korea has denounced allegations that it supplied missiles to Hamas and material support to Hizbullah as "sheer fiction" and a "sinister" effort to link Pyongyang to Middle East disputes.

The rebuttal from the foreign ministry was carried in a statement late Monday by the North's official KCNA news agency.

Unknown assailants kidnapped on Monday evening a Syrian national from the Bekaa town of Arsal's square, threatening to kill him if the ransom they requested was not paid.

"Syrian national Ziad Mehieddine Khadra reported to the Arsal police station that unknown assailants have kidnapped his father Mehieddine from the Arsal square,” the state-run National news Agency said.

Ramadan had just an hour left to go, but Bashar Sarmini, the thyme seller of Aleppo, and his three sons never saw the sun set on the month of fasting.

A rapid barrel-bombing raid by Syrian regime planes killed them all in the rebel-held district of Shaar in the divided northern city, the Syrian observatory for Human Rights reported.

The U.N. Security Council on Monday backed a Russian initiative to bar trade in oil with Islamists in Iraq and Syria.

The 15-nation Council warned in a joint statement that buying oil from groups such as the Islamic State and Jabhat Al-Nusra fighting in Iraq and Syria could lead to sanctions.