Russian air strikes on the Islamic State group bastion of Raqa in northern Syria on Thursday killed at least 30 people, including 24 civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The monitoring group said it had not yet confirmed how many of the remaining six people killed were civilians or IS jihadists.
Russia confirmed that six warplanes carried out airstrikes around Raqa, but said it had demolished "a chemical weapons factory in the city's northwestern outskirts."
(AFP)