The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said at least 21 people were killed by several airstrikes in Idlib city, including one that hit a popular market. “But we do not know yet which planes had carried out the strikes”, the Observatory’s head Rami Abdel Rahman told the DPA news agency. The monitor has not yet established which forces carried out the strikes.
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A coalition of Syrian rebel groups that includes al-Qaida’s local branch, the Nusra Front, controls the city.
At least 39 people were killed and dozens injured in airstrikes launched by regime and Russian warplanes in Syria’s western province of Idlib on Sunday.
Air raids in the town of Maarat al-Numan, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Idlib killed another six people, the Observatory said.
Moscow supplied warplanes to the Syrian regime in 2015 to support President Bashar al-Assad against the rebels who are seeking an end to his rule.
Fighting in Syria’s five-year civil war has intensified since a February ceasefire deal which took hold in the west of the country but excluded al Qaeda and Islamic State, but quickly began to unravel.
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This strike, Al-Fares said, resulted in 18 deaths and 50 wounded, in addition to resulting in large amounts of damage to houses and shops.
