Air strikes kill 12 fighters in Syria's Idlib - monitor
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BEIRUT -- Air strikes killed at least 12 Islamist rebel fighters in Idlib province in northwestern Syria on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Unidentified warplanes struck positions of the hardline jihadist Jund al-Aqsa group southeast of Idlib city, near the village of Sarmin, the British-based war monitoring group said.
It was unclear if those killed were from Jund al-Aqsa or other Islamist factions, it said, and they could have been fighters belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance of Islamist groups based in Idlib.
A Hayat Tahrir al-Sham media unit said the U.S.-led coalition hit one of its positions near Sarmin, killing six fighters.
