Prosecutor and the judge killed in northwest Syria.

Gunmen opened fire Sunday on a car carrying a senior Syrian state prosecutor and a judge in the restive northwest province of Idlib, killing both of them and their driver, according to the state news agency.

Syrian military defectors waging an armed struggle against President Bashar Assad's regime control parts of Idlib province, which borders Turkey. It has been one of the regions hardest hit by the government crackdown on an 11-month-old uprising against Assad's regime. The uprising began in March as a peaceful protest but has grown into a bloody insurgency.
The unrest and the resulting crackdown left more than 5,400 people dead last year alone, according to the U.N.

State news agency SANA said Idlib provincial state prosecutor Nidal Ghazal and Judge Mohammed Ziadeh were killed instantly.