In one month .. 230 dead in northern Syria, including 63 children

About 230 civilians, including 63 children, were killed last month in northwestern Syria, the Syrian civil defense said, amid talk of a fragile truce in the area. While elements of the regime forces were killed at Al-Shaerat airport as a result of a "technical error".

The source added that more than six hundred civilians were injured in the bombing by the regime's aircraft and Russia on residential neighborhoods and popular markets, in the cities and towns of Idlib and rural Hama.

The Civil Defense explained that the shelling also resulted in the destruction of about 85 houses and six schools.

He confirmed that the Russian warplanes and the regime launched last month more than four thousand air raids on cities and towns in the area of ​​reducing the fourth escalation.

In the city of Bab and the town of Turkman Parah of the city of Aazaz, a suburb of Aleppo province north of the country, one person was killed and 19 injured in the bombings on Saturday.

Anatolia reported, quoting local sources, that an improvised explosive device planted with vehicles belonging to the Free Syrian Army forces exploded in the two areas.

The Al-Jazeera correspondent in Syria said the area of ​​the fourth escalation in the north of the country is calm with caution after the cease-fire came into effect on Sunday.

He explained that the displaced families of Idlib and the countryside of Hama, Aleppo and Lattakia returned to inspect their homes, and to explore the damage suffered before returning to settle in.

At the same time, the opposition forces said they repulsed an attempt to infiltrate the regime forces in the eastern countryside of Idlib, and killed a number of its members.

Airport of Al-Shaerat
At the same time, 12 members of the regime's forces were killed Saturday in an ammunition explosion at the military airport in the central province of Homs.

According to the official news agency (SANA), the explosion resulted from "a technical error during the transfer of expired ammunition," referring to "the rise of a number of martyrs" without specifying the outcome.

Shaerat airport is one of the country's leading military airports, and media reports say it includes Iranian fighters who support the regime.

US missiles targeted the airport in April 2017 in retaliation for a sarin gas attack on the city of Khan Sheikun (northwest), which Washington accused Damascus of carrying out and was responsible for more than 80 civilians.