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Regime air strikes kill dozens

Warplanes pound rebels in Aleppo, Idlib; Kurds launch new Mosul offensive

AFP, Beirut
Syrian and Russian warplanes have launched a wave of air strikes in northern Syria, killing dozens in areas held by a rebel alliance battlingto take control of second city Aleppo.
The strikes, which began on Saturday and were continuing yesterday, killed at least 45 civilians in Aleppo and west of the city and 22 more in neighbouring Idlib province, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes were targeting areas held by the Army of Conquest, an alliance of rebel, Islamist and jihadist forces that has mounted a major offensive to seize Aleppo.
"The intensification of the strikes in Idlib is due to the fact that this province is the main source of fighters for the Army of Conquest," the head of the Britain-based Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP.
An AFP correspondent in rebel-held eastern Aleppo said the strikes were especially
intense around the southern district of Ramussa, seized by rebel fighters earlier this month in a major setback for forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
Nine other civilians were killed in rebel shelling of regime-held western Aleppo on Saturday, the Observatory said.
After a nearly three-week siege, rebel forces took Ramussa on August 6, linking up with opposition-held neighbourhoods. Emboldened by the win, the Army of Conquest announced an
ambitious bid to capture all of Aleppo, which if successful would be the biggest opposition victory yet in Syria's conflict.
The defence ministry in Moscow yesterday said that six long-range bombers from Russia had struck around Deir Ezzor, a stronghold of the Islamic State group in Syria.
The ministry said in a statement that the Russian Tupolev bombers carried out raids to the southwest, east and northeast of the city, wiping out two command posts, six arms depots, IS vehicles and "a large number of fighters".
IS emerged amid the chaos of Syria's conflict, a complex and multi-front war that has left more than 290,000 dead and forced millions from their homes since beginning with anti-regime protests in March 2011.
In Iraq, Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by US-led coalition airstrikes launched a fresh attack on Islamic State near Mosul in the early hours of yesterday, as part of a plan to close in on their de facto capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said.
Mosul is the largest urban center under the militants' control, with a pre-war population of nearly 2 million. Its fall would mark their effective defeat in Iraq, according to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who has said he aims to retake the city this year.
The operation that started Sunday is part of the "shaping operations “ to prepare for an offensive on the city itself, said a Kurdish official who declined to be identified.