Al-Jazeera correspondent in Syria reported that three civilians were killed and others were injured, including volunteers in the Syrian Civil Defense, on Sunday in raids from Russian planes, targeting the villages and towns of Hass, Hish and Hamdieh in the southern countryside of Idlib.
The shelling resulted in significant destruction of buildings and property in the towns of Khan Sheikhoun, Deir Sharqi, Sejnah, Sheikh Mustafa and Kensfra dozens of raids; resulting in civilian casualties.
Submit to the opposition
While military confrontations between regime forces and opposition forces continued in Idlib and Hama, opposition forces said they had killed a number of regime soldiers and militias supporting it, and regained control of a strategic town in Idlib province.
A military commander of the Free Syrian Army's National Liberation Front said that the opposition factions regained control of the town of Kfaridoun near Khan Shekhoun in the southern countryside of Idlib after killing and wounding dozens of government and Russian special forces, including Major General Hassan Mohammed Barhoum, who was wounded during the fighting.
Syrian and Russian warplanes continued to bombard areas of Idlib countryside, where Russian fighter jets fired several high-explosive missiles at the town of Al-Tamana in Idlib countryside.
According to a source in the Civil Defense, a number of casualties were reported due to the fall of six high-explosive rockets on the town of Al-Tamanah today, while FSA reinforcements arrived from Aleppo northern countryside to the fronts of Idlib countryside.
For its part, the Syrian News Agency (SANA) said today that "the Syrian army continued its advance in the southern countryside of Idlib and came closer to the city of Khan Sheikhoun."
Car bomb
On the other hand, a car bomb killed one of its members and wounded two others in the city of Qamishli, which is controlled by the Kurds in northeastern Syria today.
The car bomb targeted a training facility guarded by members of the Internal Security Force for northern and eastern Syria, also known as "Asayish," and the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
Located on the border with Turkey, the city of Qamishli, a vast area of eastern and northern Syria, is controlled by Kurdish-led forces fighting the Islamic State along with the US-led coalition.