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Majority of Russian air strikes still aimed at Syria opposition forces – Hammond

The raids killed sixteen civilians at a marketplace for gasoline in Maarat al-Naasan yesterday, a village in Idlib province, in response to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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AFP reported that the raids targeted a market in a village in the province of Idlib, and another in a northern Aleppo province village held by IS.

At last month’s G20 summit in Turkey, Russian President Vladimir Putin told British Prime Minister David Cameron he was seeking to do more to focus Russian efforts on combating Islamic State, a source in Cameron’s office said.

The Britain-based observatory said both tolls were likely to rise as many people were critically wounded.

The strikes were delivered to support the Ganim detachment making part of the Free Syrian Army, and the armed formation of the Democratic Forces, Rudskoy said.

Russia, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s staunchest allies, is carrying out a campaign of air strikes it says are aimed at Islamic State (IS) militants, but which also support Assad’s forces.

The Army General said at a meeting with military attaches that, in addition to air strikes, the Russian military supplies the Syrians with ammunition and war materiel as a contribution to the war against the ISIL and other extremist groups.

IS has swept throughout japanese elements of Aleppo province from its bastion in Raqa, preventing each non-jihadist rebels and regime troops alongside the best way.

But the northwestern province of Idlib is controlled by the fiercely anti-IS Army of Conquest alliance, which includes Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front.

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At least 250,000 people have been killed since the Syria conflict began in 2011, according to United Nations figures.

Alexandr Elistratov  TASS