Syria: Nine dead including a woman and six children from army shelling in Idlib

At least 9 people were killed by his army’s shelling Assad in Syriain Idlibthe last major rebel stronghold in the country.

A bombardment by Syrian regime ground forces hit these people while they were picking olives in the village of Kokfin“, in the mountainous region of Jabal al-Zawiya, the Observatory said.

Nine civilians including a woman and six children» were killed and others were injured, some seriously, the NGO added.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Qaeda’s arm in Syria) controls large parts of Idlib province and some of the neighboring provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is considered a terrorist organization by the Syrian regime, the United States and the United Nations.

According to the Syrian Observatory, shelling and clashes were taking place in the area before today’s bombing, while HTS bombed neighboring areas controlled by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad after the strike.

Source: News Beast

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