The Syrian regime forces on Friday have bombed with heavy artillery the Jabal al-Zawiya region in northern Idlib province, targeting a Turkish military convoy, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter.
The artillery attack took place near the town of Balion.
No casualties were reported.
Also, the Russian warplanes conducted three airstrikes on Friday on Jabal al-Zawiya and the al-Kabana hills east of the coastal Latakia province.
Last week, artillery fire from regime-controlled territory and airstrikes killed at least eight civilians in Idlib, most of them children, and destroyed a civil defence centre and a water station, rescue workers said.
Shelling struck the home of a volunteer of the rescue service called the White Helmets, in Balion village in southern Idlib province, killing his two children.
Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday extending the delivery of humanitarian aid for a year from Turkey to rebel-held northwest Syria, where the U.N. says 3.4 million people are in desperate need of food and other assistance.
The resolution was adopted after the United States and Russia reached a deal on rival draft resolutions backed by the West and Moscow.
The key issue had been whether the council should authorize deliveries through the Bab al-Hawa crossing to northwest Idlib for another year as the West, U.N. and humanitarian groups said was critical — or for six months as Russia, Syria’s closest ally, had insisted on. The current one-year mandate for aid through Bab al-Hawa expires on Saturday.
The resolution authorizes aid deliveries through Bab al-Hawa for one year with a report from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in six months on the “transparency” of the aid operation and progress on delivering aid across conflict lines within Syria as Russia wanted. With agencies
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