A child was killed and three people were injured in Russian airstrikes in Idlib de-escalation zone, local civil defense sources said Saturday.
The attacks targeted the city of Jisr al-Shughur and the towns of Al-Nayrab, Sheikh Mustafa, Rakaya, Bidama and Kabina in Idlib, according to Syrian opposition's aircraft observatory.
Civil defense sources said a child was killed and three people were injured when airstrikes targeted a refugee camp in Al-Nayrab.
In 2018, Turkey and Russia agreed to turn Idlib into a de-escalation zone in which acts of aggression are expressly prohibited. Since then, more than 1,300 civilians have been killed in attacks by the regime and Russian forces in the de-escalation zone.
Notably, about a million people have been forced to leave conflict-prone areas of the city and started taking shelter in safer areas in the northern part of the city that borders Turkey.
On Friday, Five civilians were killed in Russian airstrikes on the villages of Rami, Jibala and Maarshimshan.
The villages fall within Idlib province's Kafr Nabl district which was designated as a part of the de-escalation zone in Turkey’s deal hammered with Russia late in 2018.
Since then, more than 1,300 civilians have been killed in attacks by the regime and Russian forces in the de-escalation zone.
The Idlib region, which is home to some three million people, including many displaced by Syria's eight-year civil war, is controlled by the country's former Al-Qaeda affiliate.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's forces launched a blistering military campaign against Idlib in April, killing around 1,000 civilians and displacing more than 400,000 people from their homes.
A ceasefire announced by the regime's major backer Moscow has largely held since late August, although the Observatory says skirmishes have persisted.
Assad last month said Idlib was the main front standing in the way of an end to the civil war, as his forces made a partial comeback in northeast Syria to stave off a Turkish offensive against Kurdish fighters there.
The Assad regime had gained back large swathes of Syria from rebels and jihadists in the past four years since Moscow intervened militarily by its side.
Eight years of war in Syria have killed 560,000 people and driven half the pre-war population of 22 million from their homes, including more than 6 million as refugees to neighbouring countries. Zaman Al Wasl, Agencies
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