DAMASCUS, Sept 9 (NNN-SANA) – Russian airstrikes on positions of the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, in north-western Syria, killed 120 rebels, yesterday.
The Russian warplanes attacked a Nusra Front training camp, in the Sheikh Youssef area of Idlib province, and destroyed observation points, drones, and missile launchers, the Russian military sources in Syria were quoted as saying.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, also reported the Russian airstrikes in Idlib, saying, the Russian warplanes carried out 14 airstrikes yesterday and fired one surface-to-surface missile on rebel-held areas in the province.
Occupied by a number of rebel groups, including ultra-radical ones like Nusra Front, Idlib has emerged as the last major rebel stronghold in Syria.– NNN-SANA
