Briefs | Syria: Death toll from airstrikes on market climbs to 61

A Syrian war monitoring group says the death toll from airstrikes on a market in northern Syria the previous day has climbed to 61. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says there were six women, five children, and three police officers among those killed in the three strikes on Monday on the market in the opposition-held town of Atareb. The Observatory’s director, Rami Abdurrahman, says the rest were male civilians. Yasser Hmeish, a clinician at the scene, says rescuers were still pulling bodies from the rubble yesterday morning.

The Observatory said it couldn’t determine whether Russia or the Syrian government was behind the attack. The opposition Syrian National Coalition accused Russia, Syrian President Bashar Assad’ chief military backer.

France | 130 killed in Paris attacks honored, 2 years on

In silence and tears, families of the victims of France’s deadliest terror attacks stood alongside President Emmanuel Macron Monday to honor the 130 people killed two years ago when Islamic State extremists attacked the City of Light.

A crowd joined them on the memorial sites to lay roses and light candles in memory of the victims. Dozens of families and Parisians gathered outside the Bataclan concert hall, where the attacks took their most chilling turn as extremists opened fire on a dancing crowd and held hundreds hostage in an hourslong standoff with police. Ninety people were killed.