IDLIB/ALEPPO, Syria
At least 32 people were killed early Friday when Syrian regime forces shelled targets in the Idlib and Aleppo provinces, according to local sources.
Friday’s artillery barrages coincided with the first day of Eid al-Fitr, the three-day festival that follows the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.
Bahjat al-Najjar, a local media activist, told Anadolu Agency that regime forces had targeted civilian areas of Idlib’s city of Maarrat Misrin.
“Sixteen people were killed and 25 injured by a missile attack and mortar strikes – launched from the regime-held village of Kafarya – that targeted a busy market,” al-Najjar said.
And Tarek Alloush, a Syrian Civil Defense official, told Anadolu Agency that a regime warplane had dropped two barrel bombs on the village of Urum al-Jawz, also in Idlib, “killing 11 and injuring 20 others.”
According to another Civil Defense official, two mosques in Allepo’s Daesh-held city of Al-Bab were also targeted, killing at least five people and injuring scores of others.
According to the UN, more than 220,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in early 2011 between the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and armed opposition groups.
