Syrian insurgents seize village south of Aleppo

BEIRUT — A coalition of Syrian rebels and jihadists seized a strategic village from pro-government forces outside the contested city of Aleppo on Friday, signaling the reemergence of a powerful, ultraconservative insurgent coalition on the opposition’s side in the Syria conflict.

Renewed fighting erupted around the village of Khan Touman hours after opposition fighters took the position from pro-government forces, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported.

The Army of Conquest seized Idlib, a strategic and symbolically important provincial capital, from government forces last year and threatened to make advances toward strongholds on the Mediterranean coast and toward Damascus.

[...] Friday, Russian and Syrian officials denied that their aircraft struck a refugee camp for people displaced by fighting, killing 28 in Idlib province.