'9,300 Syrians killed by Russian air strikes in past year'

Russian air strikes have killed more than 9,000 people in war-torn Syria in the past year, a Syrian opposition monitoring group which tracks the country's civil war has said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday the victims include both civilians and fighters, among them rebel groups as well as militants from the Islamic State group and an al Qaida-linked faction.