Today, Tuesday, Russian aviation launched dozens of air strikes on the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib, in disregard of the recently announced ceasefire, which killed more civilians, including an entire family.
Al-Jazeera correspondent in Syria reported that 12 civilians were killed and others wounded in Russian raids that targeted towns and villages in the western Aleppo countryside and the eastern Idlib countryside.
In the western countryside of Aleppo, six children were killed with their parents, in two raids on the family’s home in the village of Kfartaal. The two raids also killed a young man and wounded nine others.
The Civil Defense of the Syrian opposition released pictures of the bodies of the victims recovered from the rubble of the destroyed house.
The Civil Defense also reported the death of a child and the injury of two women in an air strike on the town of Takad in the western countryside of Aleppo, bordering Idlib Governorate (northwestern Syria), while a child was killed by a separate raid on the village of Arhab in the same area.
In the eastern and southern Idlib countryside, Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that today, air strikes targeted the towns of Al-Barah, Maasran and Telmens in Idlib countryside.
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For his part, the civil defense in Idlib said that Russian warplanes bombed a soccer field this morning in the town of Al-Barah in Jabal Al-Zawiya (south of Idlib), killing two men and wounding two women and two children.
According to the Association for "Civil Response Coordinators in the Syrian North", fifty civilians have been killed and more than 31,000 have been displaced in Idlib Governorate since a ceasefire was announced on January 12 as a result of attacks by the Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian allies.
The Syrian regime forces and their ally Russia have intensified since last December their operations in Idlib countryside, forcing about 350 thousand people to move towards the Turkish border, according to the United Nations.