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Air strikes hit Idlib on day of Syria summit in Tehran: Monitor
2018-09-08
[AlAhram] Air strikes hit parts of Syria's rebel-held Idlib province on Friday, a war monitor said, the same day as the presidents of Iran, Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
will meet in Tehran to discuss what to do about the enclave.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes were targeting positions belonging to rebel groups in the northern Hama and southern Idlib provinces.

Around 3 million people live in the last major stronghold of active opposition to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
's rule, which comprises most of Idlib province and adjacent small parts of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo provinces.

Damascus, backed by allies Russia and Iran, has been preparing an assault to recover those rebel-held parts of the northwest, and resumed air strikes alongside Russia on Tuesday after weeks of lull.

The Britannia-based Observatory said strikes on Friday had destroyed a building used by the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
group near the town of al-Habeet resulting in a number of casualties.

Ahrar al-Sham is part of the Turkey-backed National Liberation Front alliance which formed earlier this year.

Russian officials have stated clearly they want turbans to be pushed out of Idlib. The United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
has warned that a military offensive in Idlib could cause a humanitarian catastrophe.
Rudaw adds:
On Friday morning, Russian air raids targeted rebel positions in the southwest of the province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Among them were positions of the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
(HTS) alliance, as well as of the hardline Ahrar al-Sham group, the Britannia-based monitor said.

They destroyed one Ahrar al-Sham post, killing one of its fighters and wounding 14 others in the area of Hobait, it said.

A shepherd was also killed and four other people maimed in the bombardment, the Observatory said, although it was not immediately clear if they were fighters or civilians.

"The aim was to destroy rebel fortifications," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.

Russian warplanes then carried out a second wave of strikes on the same target, preventing rescue workers from extracting victims from the rubble, he said.

HTS controls more than half of Idlib province, while other rebels, including Ahrar al-Sham, hold most of the rest.

The Damascus regime is present in a southeastern chunk of the province.
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