Syrian state media say two people have been killed in shelling on President Bashar Assad's ancestral village of Qardaha. Syria's state broadcaster said Monday the village has been shelled by "terrorists" for two days straight. Assad's father, the late president Hafez Assad, was born in Qardaha. The village has been largely spared from the violence of Syria's civil war, which grew out of demonstrations in 2011 against the Assad family's four-decade rule. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the shelling, saying two civilians have been killed.

Source: Fox News September 25, 2017 10:57 UTC