Fierce clashes in Syria killed over 100 combatants

Fierce clashes between Russia-backed government forces and jihadists have killed more than 100 combatants in northwestern Syria since Thursday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights yesterday said that the clashes on the edge of the jihadist-controlled Idlib region have killed at least 53  government loyalists



along with 48 jihadists and Islamist fighters. 

The region of some three million people -- almost half of them displaced from other parts of the country -- is dominated by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance led by Al-Qaeda's former Syrian affiliate.