Airstrikes Kill Dozens of People in Syrian Market<br />Atareb and the countryside around it remain outside the control of the Syrian government, which says it wants to retake all of Syria after six years of civil war<br />that has killed at least 400,000 people and displaced 11 million others — half the country’s population.<br />13, 2017<br />BEIRUT, Lebanon — Dozens of people were killed in airstrikes on a market in northern<br />Syria on Monday, according a monitoring group and a news agency run by activists.<br />A police station by the market was also struck, killing an officer, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, monitoring group<br />that tracks the conflict with the aid of a network of contacts in Syria.<br />Atareb and the opposition-held countryside in northwestern Syria are meant to be protected by a "de-escalation agreement" brokered earlier this year by Russia, Iran,<br />and Turkey, the main backers to the Syrian government and the opposition.<br />At least 53 people were killed according to the Observatory, which said the market was hit by three separate strikes.<br />The Observatory said it could not determine whether the Syrian government or its chief backer, Russia, was behind the attack.
