Mobile phone footage of fierce fires burning in Saraqeb was posted online by witnessesSeveral towns in Syria’s rebel-controlled Idlib province have been hit with incendiary weapons as President Assad and his allies step up their bombing campaign after last week’s nerve gas attacks. Multiple witnesses recorded mobile phone footage of fierce fires burning in the town of Saraqeb yesterday evening. The bright white burning plumes of the missiles which started the blazes suggest that they were either white phosphorus or thermite bombs. The local opposition radio station Fresh FM reported that Russian jets had dropped two incendiary missiles on the northern outskirts of the town. Assad and his allies have intensified their attacks on Idlib, the last pocket of rebel territory in northern…

Source: The Times April 10, 2017 10:52 UTC