Children amongst 7 killed in alleged Russian strike in Syria

A monitoring rights group says a Russian warplane struck a home on Friday in northwestern Syria close to the Turkish border, killing seven civilians, together with 4 kids.Syrian Civil Defense volunteers rushed to the home to take away the our bodies below the rubble.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and opposition media outlet Orient TV say the airstrike in Idlib’s city of Jisr al-Shoghour was carried out by a Russian warplane following 4 different Russian airstrikes in a city additional north.

The sources of the airstrikes on Idlib couldn’t be independently verified. The northwestern area of Syria is house to the nation’s final insurgent enclave.

The province of Idlib is below the management of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an al-Qaida-linked group, whereas northern Aleppo province is below the management of Turkish-backed insurgent teams.

More than 90% of the inhabitants in that space dwell in excessive poverty, counting on humanitarian assist to outlive.The Syrian authorities in Damascus, alongside key ally Russia, often launch airstrikes within the space.

Turkey has warned it intends to launch a brand new army operation concentrating on the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in northwestern Syria. Turkey says the Kurdish-led forces pose a safety risk and deem them a terrorist group.

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