Air strikes on Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate in the country's northwest on Tuesday killed at least 30 people, including civilians, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 10 air strikes battered the headquarters of Fateh al-Sham Front and the surrounding neighbourhood in Idlib city at dawn on Tuesday.
"The toll could rise because some people are trapped under the rubble and unaccounted for," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. Rahman said the raids were likely carried out a US-backed air coalition.
Fateh al-Sham has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks in Idlib province, the only remaining opposition-held province in war-ravaged Syria. Bombing raids against the group have escalated, including one US strike in January that killed more than 100 fighters at a training camp in Idlib province.
The US-led coalition has mostly focused on Fateh al-Sham's jihadist rival, the Islamic State group, but it has also hit operatives from other groups.
Rebel groups have held Idlib province since the spring of 2015, four years after conflict first broke out in March 2011.
Idlib's population has been swollen by thousands of Syrian fighters and their families evacuated from villages and towns around Damascus and Aleppo city, which was retaken by the government in recent months.
Separately, at least four people were killed in air strikes by unknown jets in the town of Arbin in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, northeast of the capital. The Syrian army and pro-government militias have been seeking in recent days to gain new ground there.
