Airstrike Hits Busy Market in Opposition-Held Northwestern Syria and Kills at Least 9 People

Airstrike Hits Busy Market in Opposition-Held Northwestern Syria and Kills at Least 9 People
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JISR AL-SHUGHUR, Syria—An airstrike early Sunday over a busy vegetable market in northwestern Syria killed at least nine people, activists and local first responders said.

Activists and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia, a top ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, launched the strike over the strategic opposition-held town of Jisr al-Shughur near the Turkish border.