Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Syria War: Deadly Air Strikes Kills At Least 50

Idlib: At least 50 people have been killed and dozens have been injured in Syrian government air strikes on markets in two rebel-held towns of Idlib province.
Five children were among the victims and the death toll was expected to rise. Escalating violence in the country in recent days has left a seven-week partial truce on the verge of collapse.
The strikes were among the deadliest since a ceasefire took effect in Syria at the end of February, Rami Abdurrahman, chief of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said. The opposition’s Higher Negotiations Committee (HNC) announced its delegation was leaving Geneva because no advances were made in the talks. Riad Hijab, the head of the HNC, had earlier warned that the delegation would leave Switzerland if the attacks on rebel-held towns would not stop.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted that the peace talks were “not frozen”. He said a government delegation and other groups were still taking part.  Lavrov told a press conference in France that “external players” were trying to destabilize the talks and damage the Damascus government. He said: “There are some players on the external front who cherish dreams of ousting the regime using force, they are trying to do everything they can to achieve this, including attempts to trigger derailment of the intra-Syria talks.”
It was not clear if Tuesday’s air strikes were carried out by Syrian or Russian war planes that have been deployed to Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.


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