In the evening, a warplane swooped low and on two separate occasions dropped bombs near a heavily defended rebel checkpoint, striking a car carrying the family and sending rebel fighters fleeing for cover in chaotic scenes.
SEOUL, South Korea North Koreaea's state-run television called its young, untested leader, Kim Jong-un, a "military genius" on Sunday and showed him driving a tank, sitting in the cockpit of a warplane and interacting with soldiers in a youthful display of camaraderie that was unlike the style of his late father.
Al-Masirah, a Houthi-backed TV channel, said tribesmen had shot down a warplane in Sa'ada, the stronghold of the rebels.
There were also reports of a warplane crashing in a southern suburb of the northern city of Idlib.
On a recent day in an Aleppo vegetable market, a warplane's low rumble halted all transactions and conversation.
Launched from a warplane, they can home in on an adversary's air-defense radar signals and destroy those sites.
In October, a US warplane bombed a civilian hospital in Afghanistan, raising prospects of a war crime inquiry over the apparent accident.
The attack, a day after another settler was shot and killed in the West Bank, was part of a surge in violence after an Israeli warplane dropped a bomb into a crowded Gaza neighborhood early Tuesday that killed a Hamas leader and 14 other people, 9 of them children.
(In July, an Israeli warplane dropped a one-ton bomb on the building where Shehada lived; he was killed, along with at least fourteen others, including nine children).
And when, in 1999, a NATO warplane mistakenly bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Pottinger wrote, "I saw Murdoch's reporters at Phoenix TV use the event to fuel an anti-American propaganda orgy while hesitating to report the Clinton Administration's apology".
