SYRIA: REBEL FIGHTERS RETALIATE AFTER 78 KILLED IN RUSSIAN AIR STRIKE

Middle East World

Tue 27 October 2020:

Syrian opposition groups lobbed hundreds of missiles and artillery rockets at government posts in northwestern Syria on Tuesday, Associated Press reported.

The Monday airstrike on an opposition training camp near the border with Turkey killed more than 50 Turkish-backed fighters, according to one opposition spokesman, and wounded nearly as many, in one of the heaviest blows to the opposition’s strongest groups. 

The Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war in Syria, put the toll at 78 fighters dead and nearly 90 wounded. Videos circulating online showed the bodies of about a dozen men spread on the ground of an open space, wrapped in blankets.

In retaliation, the Turkey-backed groups, operating under the umbrella of the National Front for Liberation, fired hundreds of artillery rounds and missiles since late Monday at government posts in territories adjacent to areas they control in Idlib and Aleppo provinces.

Some 1 million people were displaced by the last offensive inside the already packed enclave, home to over 3 million.

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