published october 15 2016 at least 11 people were killed and 25 others injured saturday when russian fighter jets struck an opposition-held neighborhood in western syrias idlib province according to a local civil defense official. the russian strike targeted a drug warehouse and a civil defense center in turmanin neighborhood vasik harak told anadolu agency. he said the raid has left a number of houses destroyed and caused a fire but fire fighters managed to put it out. syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011 when the bashar al-assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests - which erupted as part of the "arab spring" uprisings - with unexpected ferocity. since then more than a quarter of a million people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced across the war-battered country according to the un. the syrian center for policy research however a beirut-based ngo has put the death toll from the six-year conflict at more than 470000.
11 killed 25 injured in russian air strike in syrias idlib