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Russian jets strike Syrian rebel-held bastion in heaviest strikes

since ceasefire

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian opposition sources said Russian jets bombed rebel-held northwestern
Syria on Sunday in the most extensive strikes since a Turkish-Russian deal halted major fighting with a
ceasefire nearly six months ago.

Witnesses said the warplanes struck the western outskirts of Idlib city and that there was heavy
artillery shelling in the mountainous Jabal al Zawya region in southern Idlib from nearby Syrian army
outposts. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

“These 30 raids are by far the heaviest strikes so far since the ceasefire deal,” said Mohammed
Rasheed, a former rebel official and a volunteer plane spotter whose network covers the Russian air
base in the western coastal province of Latakia.

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Other tracking centres said Russian Sukhoi jets hit the Horsh area and Arab Said town, west of the city
of Idlib. Unidentified drones also hit two rebel-held towns in the Sahel al-Ghab plain, west of Hama
province.

There has been no wide-scale aerial bombing since a March agreement ended a Russian-backed
bombing campaign that displaced over a million people in the region which borders Turkey after
months of fighting.

There was no immediate comment from Moscow or the Syrian army who have long accused militant
groups who hold sway in the last opposition redoubt of wrecking the ceasefire deal and attacking
army-held areas.

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Western diplomats tracking Syria say Moscow piled pressure on Ankara in the latest round of talks on
Wednesday to scale down its extensive military presence in Idlib. Turkey has more than ten thousand
troops stationed in dozens of bases there, according to opposition sources in touch with Turkish
military.

Witnesses say there has been a spike in sporadic shelling from Syrian army outposts against Turkish
bases in the last two weeks. Rebels say the Syrian army and its allied militias were amassing troops on
front lines.

Two witnesses said a Turkish military column comprising at least 15 armoured vehicles was seen
overnight entering Syria through the Kafr Lusin border crossing in the direction of a main base in rural
Idlib.

Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; editing by Philippa Fletcher

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