Russian air strike kills 6 civilians in Syria

An air strike by key Damascus ally Russia killed six civilians including a child in the embattled opposition bastion of Idlib in northwestern Syria, a war monitor. The strike hit the village of Jabala in the south of the Idlib region, taking the lives of all six from the same family, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday. The observatory said it was the bloodiest such Russian air raid in two months since Moscow announced a truce for the surrounding area on August 31.