Bombing at jihadist munition depot kills 11 in north Syria

A bombing at an ammunition depot killed 11 people on Friday in the jihadist-held city of Idlib in northwestern Syria, a Britain-based war monitor said. It targeted the arms store belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The blast killed seven HTS fighters and four other people, the war monitor said. "Initial information points to a car bomb," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
HTS controls the city of Idlib, as well as the surrounding anti-regime bastion of the same name. Last week, the jihadist-led alliance took administrative control of the whole of the region - which is made up of a large part of the Idlib province, as well as adjacent chunks of the Aleppo and Hama provinces. But the Islamic State group also have a presence in the area.