AMMAN: Fifteen people were killed on Friday in clashes between Syrian government forces and jihadist insurgents in southern Idlib province on Friday, hours after a Russian-Turkish cease-fire came into effect, a war monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes took place in the Jabal Al-Zawiya region. Six Syrian soldiers and allied fighters were killed, as well as nine fighters from the insurgent Turkistan Islamic Party, it said.
Several killed in clashes in Syria’s Idlib despite ceasefire
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Updated 06 March 2020
Several killed in clashes in Syria’s Idlib despite ceasefire
- Putin and Erdogan had agreed a cease-fire deal in the region to contain conflict
- The conflict has displaced nearly a million people in three months
