Airstrikes hit Red Crescent offices in Syria

Airstrikes hit Syrian Red Crescent offices in the northwestern city of Idlib after midnight today, injuring several staff and causing extensive damage, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

It was not clear which air force the jets belonged to or whether they had taken off from inside Syria or crossed its borders, the British-based Observatory said.

Russian and Syrian warplanes have been carrying out raids against Syrian insurgents in Idlib province, an opposition stronghold, but since the new year US airstrikes have also targeted militants in Idlib formerly affiliated to Al-Qaeda.

Among those wounded in today’s raid was the director of the local Red Crescent branch, the Observatory said.