Turkey-backed Fighters Retaliate Against Syria-allied Troops

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition groups lobbed hundreds of missiles and artillery rockets at government posts in northwestern Syria on Tuesday, in retaliation for a deadly attack that killed dozens of their fighters a day earlier. The renewed violence has undermined an already shaky cease-fire in place since March that aimed to quell military operations and government troop advances in the overcrowded rebel enclave. The Turkey-backed groups, operating under the umbrella of the National Front for Liberation, fired hundreds of artillery rounds and missiles since late Monday at government posts in territories adjacent to areas they control in Idlib and Aleppo provinces. A spokesman for the NFL, Naji al-Mustafa, said the rebel's military retaliation targeted and killed Russian officers in southern Idlib, as well as Syrian soldiers working in the area. The report could not be independently verified and there was no immediate comment from Russia or Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights recorded hundreds of projectiles lobbed by opposition fighters at nearly 20 government posts in different locations in southern Idlib, western Aleppo and the coastal province of Latakia.Read more on NewsOK.com

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