Russian warplanes target Syria's Idlib, killing at least 7 civilians
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- 09 Sep 2022
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The Syrian opposition, which now holds only a tiny sliver of the country, blamed Russia-backed warplanes for the attack. Moscow has been a major ally of Syrian regime leader Bashar Assad’s forces and helped turn the tide in the country’s civil war in his favor.
According to the opposition aircraft observatory, four Russian warplanes took off from the Hmeymim air base in Latakia and carried out a total of 16 attacks on the quarry in the village of Hafsarjah and the headquarters of the anti-regime military groups nearby.
The Assad regime and Iran-backed terrorist groups on Thursday attacked the villages of Benin, Chnan and Maklabis in the west of Idlib with ground-to-ground weapons.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which relies on an extensive network of sources on the ground, gave the casualty figures, saying a total of 14 airstrikes were launched, killing seven people. It gave a higher toll for the wounded, saying 15 people were hurt.
At least four of those killed in the strikes that hit a stone quarry and a nearby home west of Idlib city were civilians, the SOHR said.
The observatory said it was seeking to identify the other three casualties.
An Agence France-Presse (AFP) correspondent in the area saw ambulances ferrying victims from the site of the strikes, as large plumes of smoke rose overhead. Read More…
