Russian air strikes on northwest Syria’s mainly jihadist-controlled province of Idlib on Monday killed at least 37 civilians including 12 children, a Britain-based monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the highest civilian death toll in Idlib since the region was designated in May as one of Syria’s “de-escalation” zones under an accord between regime allies Russia and Iran, and rebel backer Turkey.
“The air raids struck several locations and villages in the district of Jisr Al-Shughur, leaving 37 dead among civilians, including 12 children,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, updating an earlier toll of 27 dead.
After several months of calm, Idlib province has for the past two weeks been the target of heavy air strikes by the regime and its Russian allies, following a jihadist assault in neighboring Hama province also covered by the de-escalation accord for Syria’s war that has cost more than 330,000 lives since 2011.
The Daesh group has no fighters in Idlib.
Syria’s exiled opposition blamed Russia and the Syrian regime for what it called the “criminal” bombing, according to a statement.
In what the Istanbul-based National Coalition branded “war crimes,” hospitals, medical installations, schools and civil defense facilities had been hit, it said.
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