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Reports: Deadly Airstrike in North Syria Kills 13 People

Associated Press

   BEIRUT - A war monitor and first responders group say an airstrike has
   killed at least 13 people in a village in northwestern Syria.

   The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the dead, most of them
   internally displaced persons, include seven children and three women.
   They died on Saturday in a Syrian government airstrike on the village
   of Mhambel in the province of Idlib.
   Opposition-allied first responders known as the White Helmets also
   reported the attack and the casualties.
   Idlib is the last major rebel stronghold in Syria's eight-year civil
   war. Government troops backed by Russia have been using heavy
   airstrikes in their campaign to take the area in the past months.

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