IDLIB, Syria
Thirty-five people were killed on Monday – and scores of others injured – when a Syrian regime warplane crashed into a market in the opposition-held town of Ariha in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, according to a local civil defense official.
Rami Kurabi told Anadolu Agency that six buildings had been destroyed by the crash.
The Syria conflict, which has left the country divided between warring factions, began when the regime of President Bashar al-Assad launched a violent crackdown on protests that erupted as part of the “Arab Spring” uprisings in early 2011.
Since then, the conflict has displaced half of the country’s population, with nearly four million Syrians now seeking refuge in neighboring countries, mostly in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.
