Huge Explosion' Rocks Carlton Hotel in Syrian City of Aleppo

Hotel Explosion Syria

BEIRUT -- A "huge explosion" leveled a hotel in northern Syria that Bashar Assad's troops used as a military base, along with several other buildings in a government-held area, state television and activists reported.

Syrian state television said the explosion struck on the edge of a contested neighborhood in Aleppo. The television report identified the hotel as the Carlton Hotel.
Source: NBC News