Seven people, including four children, were killed by Russian shelling in the province of Idlib (northwest Syria), the last major stronghold of jihadists and rebels in the country, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Observatory confirmed the death of “seven people, four children of the same family, two men and another person who has not been identified (…) following Russian airstrikes” in the Jisr al-Sugur sector.
According to the director of the Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman, the children were under the age of six and six of the seven victims were civilians. Other people remain trapped in the rubble, he said.
The victims were mostly Syrians displaced from the neighboring province of Hama, according to the same source.
Russia, an ally of Syria for decades, is the main supporter of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and since 2015 has intervened militarily in that country.
About half of Idlib province, as well as parts of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia provinces, are under the control of factions opposed to the Damascus regime, such as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a former branch of al-Qaeda in Syria.
The zone is also home to rebel organizations, supported to varying degrees by Turkey, and by other jihadist formations such as Hurras al-Din.
All these factions have already been the target of airstrikes by the Syrian regime, and its Russian allies, but also by the international anti-jihadist coalition and the United States itself.
Since it broke out in 2011, the conflict in Syria has caused the death of around half a million people, the destruction of infrastructure and the largest displacement of population since World War II.
Source: Capital
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