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Idlib: 9 people killed in air strikes on Maarrat al-N'san village

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 people have been killed in regime air strikes on Idlib countryside late on Sunday, a activists said.

Two children were among the victims of Maarrat al-N'san village.`

The devastating erial bombing extend on the Fatah al-Sham- controlled province.

Northeastern Damascus, 5 more civilians were killed in a regime air strike near capital Damascus on Sunday, according to local sources.

Regime warplanes struck opposition-held residential areas in Douma city in Rif Dimashq province with cluster bombs, the sources told Anadolu Agency.

“Five civilians were killed and 18 others injured in the strikes,” the sources added anonymously due to security concerns.

The sources said the attack has left a vast trail of destruction in the city.

Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests -- which erupted as part of the "Arab Spring" uprisings -- with unexpected ferocity.

Since then, more than a quarter of a million people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced across the war-battered country, according to the UN.

The Syrian Center for Policy Research, however, put the death toll from the six-year conflict at more than 470,000 people. (With AA)
 

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