SOHR: 22 opposition elements killed in Syrian army attack on Idlib
Syrian army forces killed 22 elements of the Syrian
armed opposition overnight near Idlib province, in the deadliest such attack in
an area where a recent truce is to be enforced, a monitor said Friday.
Fighting erupted when government troops seized a
position in a rural area in the north of neighboring Hama province that had
been held by the Jaish al-Izza group, Al Arabiya reported, citing a statement
by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
“This is the highest death toll in the
de-militarized zone since it was announced,” Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the
Britain-based monitoring group, said in press statements.
Idlib and some surrounding areas are the last major
rebel bastion in Syria, where the Syrian government has in recent months
retaken much of the territory it had lost since the civil war erupted in 2011.
