20 die in Air Strikes in Idlib, Syria

Air strikes by Syrian government and Russian forces killed at least 20 people in rebel-held northwestern Syria on Saturday, activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The attacks hit five villages in the Idlib region of the northwest, part of the last major territorial foothold of the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad.

According to Russian jets killed at least nine people in an attack that hit a market in the village of Balyoun and another four people in a strike on the village of al-Bara, the Observatory said.

Five more people were killed in a barrel bomb attack by Syrian government helicopters on the village of Abdita, the Observatory said. Barrel bombs killed two more people in the villages of Jebghas and Tel Minis, it added.

Syrian state media carried no reports of military operations by the Syrian army or its Russian ally in those areas on Saturday.

The Observatory said eight children were among the dead.

Barrel bombs killed two more people in the villages of Jebghas and Tel Minis, it added.

The air raids in the militant-run northwestern region of Idlib also wounded several others, the Observatory said.

via Reuters / TRT World