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Russian military jets bombed rebel-held northwest Syria on Sunday in the biggest attack in six months since the agreement between Turkey and Russia on a major ceasefire, Syrian opposition sources said. .com.
Witnesses said the fighter jets were targeting the outskirts of Idlib and that the Jabal al Zawya region, south of Idlib, was attacked with heavy artillery from nearby Syrian outposts. No casualties were reported.
“These 30 raids are by far the toughest attack so far since the ceasefire agreement,” said Mohammed Rasheed, a former rebel spokesman.
Tracking centers said Russian Sukhoi jets struck areas west of Idlib. Unidentified drones also attacked two rebel-held cities in the Sahel al-Ghab plain, west of Hama province.
Moscow and the Syrian army had no comment.
In the civil war that began in 2011, Russia supports the Syrian government and the United States, the Kurdish fighters.
Russia, which is on the side of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, has long opposed the US military presence in the country.
In October 2019, US President Donald Trump decided to withdraw 1,000 soldiers operating in support of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led alliance. A few months later, Trump said that he had decided to keep several hundred soldiers in the country to protect the oil wells.
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