A still image taken from a video footage and released by Russia's Defence Ministry on September 25, 2017, shows a missile hitting a target which Defence Ministry said was an Islamic State position in Syria. Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS TV
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Defence Ministry on Tuesday denied allegations that its air strikes had killed civilians in Syria's Idlib province, saying that in recent days it had only bombed Islamist militant fighters in the area.
Moscow said it was responding to assertions from the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which on Monday said six civilians had been killed in the province, including a woman and a child.
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