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Regime airstrikes kill 10 civilians in Idlib
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 10 non-combatants were killed Friday in Syrian regime  ...KABOOM!... s in the country’s northwest, including three children, a war monitor said. Another 45 civilians were maimed in the strikes across the bad boy-held Idlib region, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Those killed included three people in Idlib city, which until Friday had been spared strikes by the regime and its Russian ally since they stepped up bombardment of the region more than two months ago. "It’s the first time that the raids hit the centre of Idlib, after being confined until now to its suburbs," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman. Last month a civilian was killed in an airstrike on the outskirts of the regional capital, considered the stronghold of Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS). The group in January took full administrative control of the Idlib region, home to three million people, although other bad boy groups and rebel factions are also present. Russian and regime aircraft have ramped up strikes on Idlib since the end of April, killing more than 580 civilians. Rebel and bad boy fire has killed 45 civilians over the same period, according to Observatory figures. Friday’s airstrikes hit residential buildings in one of the city’s largest squares, Sabaa Bahrat, an AFP photographer said. Ambulances were dispatched to the scene to tend to the victims, he added. Meanwhile in neighbouring Hama province, six children were maimed by opposition fire in the regime-held area of Karnaz. Fierce festivities have raged in the northern sliver of Hama province in recent days, with at least 22 fighters killed Friday, according to the Observatory. At least 10 regime fighters and a dozen snuffies and allied rebels were killed in the battle near the village of Hamameyat and its strategic hilltop. Regime forces retook the area in the north of Hama province overnight into Friday after relentless fighting, according to the Britannia-based war monitor. The latest figures bring to more than 120 the number of fighters killed since Wednesday evening, when Hamameyat was seized by rebels and bad boys. The recent uptick in violence has forced 330,000 people to flee their homes, according to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Syria’s war has killed more than 370,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests. Posted by: Fred 2019-07-13 |
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