UN: Two Babies Killed by Winter Cold in Northwest Syria

A boy clears snow from one of the tents at a camp for the internally displaced near the city of Jisr al-Shughur in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on January 26, 2022. (AFP)

Two Syrian infant girls have died from harsh winter weather in northwest Syria where snow and rain have destroyed the tents of hundreds of displaced families, the United Nations said Tuesday.

"A seven-day-old girl and a two-month-old girl have died from the cold in Idlib province," the UN's humanitarian agency OCHA told AFP.