AMMAN: At least 10 people were killed in Syrian army artillery attacks and Russian air raids this week in a spike in bombardments in the last major area of the country still in rebel hands, witnesses and civil defence officials said.
They said seven civilians including a woman and a child were killed when their home in the village of Ibleen in the mountainous Jabal Al Zawya region in southern Idlib came under fire from Syrian army outposts.
At least four other rebels were killed when their convoy was hit by a Russian jet when they approached the village to rescue survivors.