On-site news reports said the aircraft-fired missile struck the bus in the village of Shoula as it was traveling to Damascus from the eastern Deir el-Zour province.
The civilians on the bus were the latest victims in Syria's civil war, which is now in its fourth year and which has killed more than 190,000 people, according to the United Nations.
The Local Coordination's Committee group said 13 people were killed in Wednesday's airstrike, while the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 16, including 10 children. It says the death toll was likely to rise because there were many wounded.
Syrian government airstrikes frequently target opposition-held areas of the country. The foul Bashir al-Assad child murdering government blamed the airstrike on local rebels but of course local rebels have no fucking airplanes!
Washington is also considering extending its airstrikes to target opposition groups in Syria so that the child-murdering Assad is not removed from power. Yay Western democracies, always finding the moral low road.
