Russian strikes on Syria’s Idlib province kill 7: monitor

Smoke billows following a Russian airstrike on the western outskirts of the mostly rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib, in September 2020. (AFP/File)
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Updated 08 September 2022
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Russian strikes on Syria’s Idlib province kill 7: monitor

  • At least four of those killed in the strikes were civilians

BEIRUT: Russian airstrikes on Syria’s last major rebel bastion, the northwestern province of Idlib, killed seven people and wounded 15 on Thursday, a Britain-based war monitoring group said.
At least four of those killed in the strikes that hit a stone quarry and a nearby home west of Idlib city were civilians, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which was seeking to identify the other three casualties.


Israel issues evacuation warning for village in southern Lebanon ahead of strike

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Israel issues evacuation warning for village in southern Lebanon ahead of strike

  • A military spokesperson said the Israeli military would attack the site in the village of Yanouh
  • It would be the second such attack within days

CAIRO: Israel issued an evacuation warning for a village in southern Lebanon on Saturday ahead of what it said was a planned strike against infrastructure of the Hezbollah militant group.
A military spokesperson said the Israeli military would attack the site in the village of Yanouh in southern Lebanon. It would be the second such attack within days, after Israel hit what it described as Hezbollah infrastructure in several areas in southern Lebanon on Tuesday.
Israel and Lebanon have both sent civilian envoys to a military committee monitoring their ceasefire, a step toward meeting a months-old US demand that they broaden talks in line with President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace agenda.
Israel and Lebanon agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire in 2024, ending more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that had culminated in Israeli strikes that severely weakened the Iran-backed militant group. Since then, the sides have traded accusations over violations.