Syria civil war: Dozens killed in Idlib air strikes

Idlib city and the province by the same name is held by a coalition of rebel groups

At least 27 people, including five children, killed in raids on Idlib and Maarat al-Numan, monitoring group says.

Air strikes have killed at least 27 people in rebel-held areas in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, a monitoring group has said.

At least 21 people, five of them children, were killed in raids, including on a marketplace, in Idlib city, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.


"There were regime and allied Russian warplanes flying in the area today. But we do not know yet which planes had carried out the strikes," the Observatory's head Rami Abdel Rahman told the DPA news agency.
Separately, aerial bombardments in the town of Maarat al-Numan, about 30km south of Idlib city, killed another six people, the Observatory said.