Syria: Regime airstrikes kill 2 civilians in Idlib

By Burak Karacaoglu and Esref Musa

IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Two Syrian civilians were killed and another five injured in regime airstrikes in the northwestern Idlib province on Wednesday, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency.

The attacks targeted residential areas in the province’s southern and western countryside, Mustafa Haj Yusuf, head of the White Helmets in Idlib, told Anadolu Agency.

According to a Syrian opposition aircraft observatory, attacks were carried out by SU 22 warplanes, which took off from Homs province.

The injured were taken to nearby field hospitals, Haj said.

Syria has just begun to emerge from a devastating civil war that began in early 2011 when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity. UN officials say hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict.