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73 killed as rebels seize village near Aleppo
BEIRUT: rebels seized a village from government forces near Aleppo overnight, a monitoring group and rebel sources said on Friday, gaining important ground near the Syrian city where the United States and Russia are trying to de-escalate the war.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 73 people had been killed in the battle for Khan Touman, some 15-km southwest of Aleppo in a location near the Damascus-Aleppo highway. While multiple rebel sources said it had been captured, a Syrian army source denied Khan Touman had fallen. The attack was launched by an alliance of Islamist insurgents k**wn as Jaish al-Fatah, including the al- Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, which has rejected diplomatic efforts to halt the war and promote peace talks. The United States and Russia this week brokered a ceasefire in the city of Aleppo itself, where some 300 people have been killed in the last two weeks in government- and rebel-held areas as a result of air strikes and shelling. "Throughout the night the battles were very intense," said Abu al-Baraa al-Hamawi, a fighter from the Ajnad al-Sham group, one of the factions taking part in the attack. "Areas south of Khan Touman have been liberated," he told Reuters. The Observatory said 43 of the dead were rebels and 30 were government forces. Groups fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, which have mostly supported diplomatic efforts in Syria, were **t taking part in the attack, a fighter from one Aleppo-based FSA group said. Meanwhile, the Syrian military denied on Friday it had conducted air strikes on a camp near the Turkish border that killed at least 28 people, but a top UN official said initial reports suggested a government plane was responsible for the "murderous attacks". UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein said Thursday’s attacks were almost certainly a deliberate war crime. France called them a "revolting and unacceptable act that could amount to a war crime or crime against humanity". The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said women and children were among those killed in the attack on the camp near the town of Sarmada, which sheltered people fleeing the five-year civil war. The monitoring group said the death toll could rise further because many people were seriously wounded. In a statement published by state media, the Syrian military said: "There is ** truth to reports ... about the Syrian air force targeting a camp for the displaced in the Idlib countryside." Syria’s ally Russia said **ne of its aircraft had flown over the camp. It said militants from the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front might have deliberately or accidentally fired on it. UN rights chief Zeid said in a statement: "Given these tent settlements have been in these locations for several weeks, and can be clearly viewed from the air, it is extremely unlikely that these murderous attacks were an accident." He said his organisation and others would "leave ** stone unturned in their efforts to research and record evidence of what appears to be a particularly despicable and calculated crime against an extremely vulnerable group of people. "Initial reports suggested the attacks were carried out by Syrian government aircraft, but this remained to be verified, he added. He urged governments on the United Nations Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court so that there would be "a clear path to punishment for those who commit crimes like these". Footage shared on social media showed rescue workers putting out fires which still burned among charred tent frames, pitched in a muddy field. أكثر... ??????? ??????: 73 killed as rebels seize village near Aleppo || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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