More than 60 dead in one day of clashes between rebels and regime forces in northern Syria

MADRID Dec. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –

More than 60 people have died this Sunday in the context of clashes in northwest Syria between the Syrian Army, backed by Russian warplanes, and groups of rebels and jihadists opposed to the regime of Bashar al Assad and supported by Turkey, who have taken control of a good part of Aleppo in a lightning offensive they launched in the middle of last week.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has published a new balance putting the death toll in the fighting this Sunday at 61.

According to the London-based organization but with sources inside Syria, the bombings have killed 17 civilians, nine of them in Idlib at the hands of Russian warplanes. The remaining eight have died in the attack by Damascus forces against the Aleppo University Hospital, which has also caused the death of nine jihadists from Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS).

On the other hand, 23 members of the Syrian Army have died in attacks while trying to advance on the north of the city of Hama, located 150 kilometers from Aleppo. Likewise, nine other members of Bashar Al Assad’s forces have died in clashes with pro-Turkish militias in rural areas of northern Aleppo.

In addition, three people, including a military commander of the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have died as a result of a drone attack launched by Turkish forces that hit the vehicle in which they were traveling in the rural area of ​​Qamishli, in the northeastern Syria near the border with Turkey and Iraq.