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Rescue efforts continue as Assad regime attacked de-escalation zone in Idlib

July 18, 2021 at 1:39 pm

Members of the Syrian Civil Defence (White Helmets) cover the body of a woman with a blanket, as they remove it from the rubble of a house hit by regime artillery fire in the village of Ehsim, in the country’s last major rebel bastion of Idlib in the northwest, early on July 18, 2021 [OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images]

Six Syrian civilians, including two children, were killed Saturday in shelling from the Bashar al-Assad regime and Iran-affiliated terrorist groups, in breach of a truce in northwestern Idlib de-escalation zone.

Regime forces stationed in the Al-Hamidiya base in southeast Idlib violated the cease-fire by shelling a village with surface-to-surface missiles.

According to the Syria Civil Defense, or White Helmets, an initial assessment of a village in the Jabal al-Zawiya province found that three women were also killed and several civilians injured in the attack.

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