Monitors: Death Toll from Air War in Idlib, Syria, Climbs Past 300

Syrian monitors say the death toll from a Russian and Syrian air offensive that began late last month against rebel positions southwest of Aleppo has climbed past 300. And they say more than 1,000 others - many of them women and children -- have been wounded. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in a statement Tuesday, said new strikes targeted eight refugee settlements in Idlib province, about 100 kilometers southwest of Aleppo. The statement identified a full third of...

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