AL MUNţāR (SYRIA) - Syria's last major rebel bastion Idlib was Saturday targeted by the "most violent" Russian air strikes in a month, a monitor said, after the failure of a three-way summit on the Syrian conflict. On Saturday, dozens of Russian air raids hit southern and southeastern areas of Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Elsewhere on Saturday, clashes between Kurdish forces and regime fighters in the divided northeastern city of Qamishli killed 18 combatants, the Kurdish forces and the Observatory said. Kurdish forces control most of Qamishli, but regime fighters and allied militiamen hold part of the city and its airport. The Kurdish forces said they had retaliated to regime fire.

Source: Bangkok Post September 08, 2018 15:45 UTC