Syria: Russia blames opposition 'terrorists' for attack on Aleppo University - as it happened Here is a summary of today's key events: In Aleppo, suspicion is growing that the jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra was responsible for yesterday's attack on Aleppo University, which killed at least 87 people, reports Martin Chulov, who has spent the last two days in the city. The regime blames the opposition for the attack; other opposition groups blame the regime. Russia has backed the government's account, calling the attack "revenge by terrorists for significant losses they have sustained in the confrontation with government forces." Russia has been one of Assad's key international backers during the current crisis. Universities were closed across the country today in mourning for yesterday's dead. A video purporting to show the damage caused to dorms at the university was posted by activists. Such videos cannot be independently verified because most media organisations are banned from Syria. Government forces launched a renewed attack on Aleppo - which is divided between a rebel-held east and a regime-held west - today. Videos purported to show the fighting there. Martin Chulov said neither side was making significant gains, and the front lines had not changed significantly since July. Simultaneous car bombs exploded in Idlib today, killing at least 22 people. The explosions seemed to be the work of suicide bombers. Videos posted by activists, which cannot be verified, purport to show the situation in the city and surrounding area. The Local Coordination Committees, a Syrian opposition group, reported that 73 people had been killed so far in Syria today, including six children and five women. Thirty-five of the dead were reported to be in Damascus and its suburbs, 11 in Homs, seven in Aleppo, six in Hama, four in Lattakia, four in Daraa, four in Idlib, and two in Raqqa. These figures and videos cannot be independently verified. This map shows where those places are. The LCCs also claimed the Free Syrian Army had downed a warplane near Damascus and one near Homs. A number of videos were posted by activists purporting to show attacks on and bomb damage in Damascus. Again, these could not be verified. The World Food Programme has received permission from the Syrian government to use dozens of additional local aid agencies to try to reach the 2.5 million people deemed hungry in the country, its boss said today. Algeria Algeria's state news agency says there has been a second fatality, a British citizen, in a militant attack on a natural gas complex in the desert. A new poll today from Walla shows Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud-Beiteinu party on 34 seats in the 120-member Knesset, with Labour on 18 and the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home on 15 in the runup to Tuesday's Israeli election. Two polls yesterday put Likud on 33 and Labour on 17, with Jewish Home on 12 in one and 14 in the other. Analysts say it is likely that Netanyahu will form a coalition with Jewish Home, with dire implications for the prospect of peace with the Palestinians. A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives blew himself up outside the offices of a major Kurdish party in northern Iraq early this morning, the deadliest in a wave of morning attacks that killed at least 31 people across the country. The violence comes amid rising tensions among Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups that threaten to plunge the country back into chaos, the Associated Press reported.