Idlib, northwestern Syria – Shaher Masri and his family heard bombs near their home shortly after noon prayers on the first day of the new year.
The Syrian regime and its Russian allies had allowed no pause for the holidays, this time bombing a bakery a few metres from the house Masri, 29, his wife and four children have been living in for the past four years in the village of Jakid al-Adas, near Darat Izza in northwestern Syria.
