Fighting between regime and opposition factions kills at least 56 combatants
A Syrian regime soldier holds a position in Syria’s Hama governorate during clashes with militants earlier on June 8, 2019.
Russian and regime aircraft ramped up their deadly bombardment of the Idlib region –– home to some three million people –– since late April, despite a months-old international truce deal.Late Wednesday, opposition forces, Hayat Tahrir al Sham and allied militants, took control of Hama's Hamameyat village and hilltop, in clashes that killed 32 regime forces and 24 other combatants, the SOHR said.
Air strikes on Wednesday alone killed 11 civilians, among them four children, including in raids that knocked a hospital out of service, the monitor said. Syria's war has killed more than 400,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with a brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests.The UN is close to an agreement with the Syrian regime on setting up a constitutional committee, a long-awaited step in a stalled peace process, the UN Syria envoy said on Wednesday.
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