US strikes jihadists in Syria, monitor says 40 killed

IDLIB: US forces attacked jihadist leaders in northwestern  Syria  on Saturday, the Pentagon said, in what a battlefield monitor called a missile strike that left at least 40 dead.
The US strike came as renewed Syrian regime bombardment of Idlib province killed one civilian in a first violation of a Russian-backed truce for the region that came into effect just hours before, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The US Defense Department said its own attack targeted leaders of Al-Qaeda in the north of the same province, but did not say what kind of weapon was used.
That attack targeted leaders of jihadist groups and allied factions near Idlib city, the Observatory said.
The US missile attack “targeted a meeting held by the leaders of Hurras al-Deen, Ansar al-Tawhid and other allied groups inside a training camp”, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Observatory.  It killed at least 40 jihadist leaders, the Britain based monitor said.