Syrian regime forces and key ally Russia escalated aerial and artillery bombardment on villages and towns in northwestern Syria, leaving dozens of people dead and wounded.
The rescue Syrian Civil Defense agency said that two people were killed and 19 injured, including 9 children and 6 women, due to the bombing that has been taking place in the Idlib regions since Friday morning.
The White Helmets added that a child was killed and two children from the same family were injured in a preliminary toll, as a result of an aerial bombardment by Russian warplanes that targeted the village of Jaftalek Haj Hammoud near “Jisr al-Shughur city west of Idlib.
A civilian was also killed and 2 injured, as a result of a missile strike by regime forces targeting the city of Darat Azza, west of Aleppo, after midnight.
Thursday’s strike on the Homs Military Academy killed 89 people, including 31 women and five children, is likely to lead to a renewed wave of violence in the country’s opposition-held northwest.
Idlib's front lines have been relatively calm since Russia and Turkey, who support rival sides in the country’s conflict, reached a cease-fire in March 2020, ending a three-month Russian-backed government offensive against insurgents, according to the AP.
At least 13 civilians, including 6 children and 5 women, were injured in a preliminary toll of missile strikes by regime forces targeting residential neighborhoods, a random camp for displaced people, and tents for those affected by the Feb.6 earthquake in Idlib.
A child and a woman were also injured as a result of an aerial bombardment by Russian warplanes that targeted a poultry farm in the village of Al-Shukhayb, near Al-Zeiniyah, west of Idlib.
Fires broke out as a result of missile bombardment by regime forces targeting residential neighborhoods in the city of Jisr al-Shughur, west of Idlib, while Russian aircraft launched air strikes targeting the village of al-Qarqour in the Al-Ghab Plain, northwest of Hama, without any casualties.
The missile and artillery bombardment also targeted the cities, villages and towns of Sarmin and the outskirts of Jericho, Al-Nairab, Ma'rablit, Deir Sunbul, Al-Bara, Badama, Al-Hanbushiya and Al-Muzara in the Idlib countryside, according to the rescue organization.
The White Helmets had said in a previous statement that a dangerous escalation was launched by the Assad terrorist regime through violent and systematic artillery and missile attacks on northwestern Syria, on Thursday, targeting popular markets, residential neighborhoods, 4 schools, a mosque, a Syrian civil defense center, an electricity utility and a power station. Fuel fuel, which led to the death of 13 civilians, including 3 women and 2 children, and the injury of 62 others, including 18 children and 13 women.
As the conflict, now in its 13th year, reached a stalemate, the Syrian government reclaimed large swathes of lost territory with the help of its key allies in Russia and Iran in recent years.
The U.N. estimates that some 300,000 civilians died during the first decade of the uprising, while half of the pre-war population of 23 million were displaced.
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