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Syrian rebels outside the city of Idlib earlier this spring. Stock Photography.
At least 22 people have been killed in fighting in northwest Syria, says opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). It is the highest death toll per day since the ceasefire was introduced two months ago, according to SOHR, which monitors the war from the UK.
The clash took place on Sunday morning when jihadists attacked one of the Syrian outposts in the Sahl al-Ghab area. During the attack, 15 regime soldiers and seven jihadists were killed, some of them from the al-Qaeda-linked Hurras al-Deen group.
The ceasefire that went into effect on March 6 ended most of the fighting in northern Syria. During the first months of the year, the Syrian regime carried out an intensive offensive against the city of Idlib, the last major city still controlled by the rebels.
The offensive cost hundreds of civilian lives and forced nearly a million people to flee. Since the civil war in Syria began in 2011, more than 380,000 people have died as a result of the fighting.
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