Russia carried out air strikes in Syria as Assad government mobilises against rebels
RUSSIA carried out a series of air strikes in Syria today as Islamist insurgents continued to push into territory further south.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that rural parts of Idlib and Hama had been hit by the strikes.
The Syrian military has rushed reinforcements to the north-west to push back jihadists who have seized Aleppo in their first offensive in years.
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