Suspected Russian air raids kill 39 in Syria

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has confirmed that a planned worldwide meeting on the Syrian crisis will take place in NY on Friday, after President Vladimir Putin received USA secretary of state John Kerry.

The raids killed 16 civilians at a market for fuel in Maarat al-Naasan, a village in Idlib province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Both tolls have been more likely to rise as many individuals have been critically wounded, the Britain-based mostly monitor stated.

The Observatory relies on a network of sources on the ground to collect its information, and identifies aircraft based on their flight patterns and munitions used.

The strikes were suspected to have been Russian airstrikes.

It said it had conducted strikes in support of a group called “Ganim” which it said was part of the Free Syrian Army, as well as in support of a group called “Desert Lions”, another group called “Kalamun”, and another called “the Democratic Forces”.

There are over 150 such opposition groups, Rudskoy said, adding that “the most patriotic of them” are already fighting IS terrorists alongside the Syrian army.

Russian Federation started its air campaign in Syria on September 30, bombing areas held by anti-regime armed groups, including western-backed moderate rebels and jihadist factions.

The army’s latest offensive came a day after the government troops clashed with Daesh terrorists in the southern countryside of Aleppo, in fighting that reportedly left at least five militants killed.

More than 250,000 individuals have died since Syria’s battle erupted in March 2011, and hundreds of thousands have fled their houses in the warfare-torn nation.