Truck bomb kills 11 cops inTurkey

YOUNG VICTIMS of the Syrian civil war continue to emerge as symbols of the country’s unimaginable suffering.

Videos taken in the Syrian city of Aleppo show two boys, covered in ashes, sobbing and clutching one another after finding out their brother had been killed in an air strike.

“My brother is gone,” one of the boys sobs, according to a translation by CNN.

Their brother was one of the estimated 15 people who died after a barrel bomb leveled buildings in the rebelheld Bab al-Nayrab neighborhood. Among the dead, 11 are reportedly children. The attack was one of two fatal air strikes Thursday in Aleppo.

The devastating aftermath of the air strike was recorded by two activist groups who are monitoring the Syrian conflict — the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Center.

In one video, a man is seen sitting amid the destruction saying, “Don’t step over them,” according to CNN.

“I lost my five children, oh God,” he says.

Amnesty International told CNN that the Syrian regime has frequently used barrel bombs to attack rebels during the country’s fiveyear civil war. According to the most recent estimates by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, more than 470,000 people have died in the conflict. ANKARA, Turkey — Kurdish militants on Friday attacked a police checkpoint in southeast Turkey with an explosives-laden truck, killing at least 11 police officers and wounding 78 other people, the state-run news agency said.

The attack struck the checkpoint some 50 yards from a main police station near the town of Cizre, in the mainly-Kurdish Sirnak province that borders Syria, the Anadolu Agency reported.

There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, which was the latest in a string of bombings targeting police or military vehicles and installations.

Authorities have blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, for those attacks.