The Latest Breaking News from Idlib

First responders and opposition war monitors say Syrian government forces have shelled a tent settlement housing families displaced by the country’s conflict in the rebel-held northwest, killing at least six people and wounding dozens

Syrian government forces shelled tent settlements housing families displaced by the country’s conflict in the rebel-held northwest early Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens, opposition war monitors and first responders said. The shelling was the latest violation of a truce reached between Russia and Türkiye in March…

The Syrian Salvation Government (SSG), the civilian arm of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) which controls Idlib and parts of the governorates of Hama, Aleppo and Latakia in northwestern Syria, has begun accepting applications for photo identity cards from citizens living under its rule. Issuing the personal IDs is viewed as…

Syrian regime airstrikes over the country’s northwestern Idlib province on Thursday killed seven civilians and wounded at least 12, activists and first responders said. The Syrian opposition, which now holds only a tiny sliver of the country, blamed Russian-backed warplanes for the attack. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

Russian forces, alongside Syrian regime forces, have been intensively bombing civilian areas in northwestern Syria since 2013. Despite several ceasefire agreements signed between 2013 and 2021, the Russian military has still been dropping illegal munitions and has carried out thousands of air strikes targeting civilian areas. Our Observer, who lives…

Syrian regime forces and Iranian militias are heavily shelling de-escalation zones in the countryside of Aleppo, Idlib and Hama in northwest Syria. In the Aleppo countryside, Damascus and its allied Iranian proxies struck civilian homes in Kafr Taal and al-Bab. At least two children and two disabled individuals were killed…

Two girls and two boys, who were between one and seven years old, lay dead on a hospital floor as their families wailed in anguish after an attack on the opposition-held town of Jisr al-Shughur

Dead in the attack on al-Jadidah included four children from one family, the White Helmets and residents have said.

Russian air strikes on a rural swath of northwest Syria on Friday killed at least seven people including four children, a war monitoring group and rescuers said, following months of relative calm in the area. Four strikes by aircraft identified as Russian by ground spotters hit the countryside in Idlib,…