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Russian airstrikes kill 20 militants allied to IS in Aleppo countryside

| | Feb 25, 2016, at 01:18 am
Aleppo, Feb 24 (Just Earth News/IBNS) : At least 20 militants in a faction allied to IS were killed during aerial bombardment by Russian warplanes in Khanaser town of Syria, a monitor group said.

"Clashes taking place between regime forces backed by non-Syrian militants against IS around Khanaser town and other areas between Aleppo and Khanaser in the southern eastern countryside, in an attempt by regime forces to re-take control on the town and open the strategic only road between Middle Syria and the west. Russian warplanes raided al-Atarib town what killed 4 civilians including a child and wounded others,"  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights website said.

Explosive barrels targeted Berj al-Hussein village in al-Hess mount in the southern countryside, what wounded a number of civilians, it said.

 

Image: UN
 

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