Airstrikes Kill Dozens of People in Syrian Market
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Airstrikes Kill Dozens of People in Syrian Market
Atareb and the countryside around it remain outside the control of the Syrian government, which says it wants to retake all of Syria after six years of civil war
that has killed at least 400,000 people and displaced 11 million others — half the country’s population.
13, 2017
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Dozens of people were killed in airstrikes on a market in northern
Syria on Monday, according a monitoring group and a news agency run by activists.
A police station by the market was also struck, killing an officer, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, monitoring group
that tracks the conflict with the aid of a network of contacts in Syria.
Atareb and the opposition-held countryside in northwestern Syria are meant to be protected by a "de-escalation agreement" brokered earlier this year by Russia, Iran,
and Turkey, the main backers to the Syrian government and the opposition.
At least 53 people were killed according to the Observatory, which said the market was hit by three separate strikes.
The Observatory said it could not determine whether the Syrian government or its chief backer, Russia, was behind the attack.
Atareb and the countryside around it remain outside the control of the Syrian government, which says it wants to retake all of Syria after six years of civil war
that has killed at least 400,000 people and displaced 11 million others — half the country’s population.
13, 2017
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Dozens of people were killed in airstrikes on a market in northern
Syria on Monday, according a monitoring group and a news agency run by activists.
A police station by the market was also struck, killing an officer, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, monitoring group
that tracks the conflict with the aid of a network of contacts in Syria.
Atareb and the opposition-held countryside in northwestern Syria are meant to be protected by a "de-escalation agreement" brokered earlier this year by Russia, Iran,
and Turkey, the main backers to the Syrian government and the opposition.
At least 53 people were killed according to the Observatory, which said the market was hit by three separate strikes.
The Observatory said it could not determine whether the Syrian government or its chief backer, Russia, was behind the attack.