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Air strikes kill 19 civilians in northwest Syria: monitor
BEIRUT, Dec 20, 2017 (BSS/AFP) – A series of air strikes hit a residential
district of a town in northwestern Syria overnight, killing 19 civilians,
seven of them children, a monitor said on Wednesday.
“Suspected Russian air strikes targeted several houses in Maarshurin,” a
rebel-held town in Idlib province, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights.
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