Syria flare-up kills over 100 fighters: monitor
[AFP]AFP•June 7, 2019
Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) - Fierce clashes between Russia-backed government forces and jihadists have killed more than 100 combatants in northwestern Syria in the past 24 hours, a war monitor said on Friday.
The clashes on the edge of the jihadist-controlled Idlib region have killed at least 53 government loyalists along with 48 jihadists and Islamist fighters since Thursday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The region of some three million people -- almost half of them displaced from other parts of the country -- is dominated by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance led by Al-Qaeda's former Syrian affiliate.
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I'm surprised the Jihadists fight the "Russian-backed government forces" so well actually.
