Regime airstrike kills 5 in Syria’s Idlib

By Burak Karacaoglu and Esref Musa

IDLIB, Syria

Five civilians were killed in a regime airstrike in the northwestern Idlib province on Tuesday, according to a local civil defense official.

Twenty-four other people were injured in the raid that targeted residential areas in the opposition-held province, Mustafa Haj Yousuff, head of the White Helmets civil defense agency in Idlib, told Anadolu Agency.

Idlib was designated as "de-escalation zone" in May 2017 in which acts of aggression are expressly forbidden.

Nevertheless, the Bashar al-Assad regime and Russian forces have continued to carry out attacks on the region.

Reporting by Burak Karacaoglu and Esref Musa:Writing by Maımaıtımıng Yılıxıatı