Russian airstrikes kill eight in Syria’s Saraqib city
At least eight people, including five children, were
killed Tuesday in Russian air strikes on a school in northwest Syria sheltering
displaced civilians, according to a war monitor.
The strikes targeted the village of Jubass near the
town of Saraqib in southern Idlib province, killing civilians sheltering in and
near a school, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Airstrikes on the rebel-held town killed seven
people and wounded more than a dozen on Saturday in Syria’s, opposition
activists said. The attack came amid a government offensive in the region.
The casualties on Saturday came as government forces
captured two new villages on the southern edge of Idlib.
Idlib is the last remaining rebel stronghold in the
war-torn country.
The province has been the center point of a
government push under the cover of airstrikes, according to opposition
activists and pro-government media.
The offensive has already forced thousands of
civilians to abandon their homes and flee for their lives.
