Airstrike kills, wounds Turkey-backed gunmen in north Syria

BEIRUT — Warplanes attacked Turkey-backed absorption fighters successful bluish Syria connected Sunday, sidesplitting and wounding astir 20, an absorption warfare show and pro-government media said.

The airstrike struck a presumption successful an country adjacent the municipality of Afrin. It came amid expanding tensions betwixt authorities forces and insurgent groups who inactive person a stronghold successful northwestern Syria, chiefly successful the state of Idlib.

The Sunday greeting airstrike was carried retired by Russian warplanes, absorption activists said.

The airstrike deed a halfway for a Turkey-backed radical known arsenic the Hamza Division sidesplitting 7 fighters and wounding 13, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Pro-government media besides reported Russian airstrikes adjacent Afrin saying that a fig of gunmen were killed oregon wounded.

Russia joined the warfare successful September 2015 helping extremity the equilibrium of powerfulness successful favour of President Bashar Assad’s forces portion Turkey has been a main backer of the opposition.

Syria’s struggle that broke retired successful March 2011 has near hundreds of thousands dormant and displaced fractional the country’s pre-war colonisation of 23 million, including much than 5 cardinal refugees extracurricular the war-torn nation.

On Friday, United Nations quality rights main Michelle Bachelet said her bureau has documented the deaths of 350,209 radical — civilians and combatants — successful Syria’s civilian war. She said the existent fig is astir surely acold higher.