Turkey called on Russia to adhere to the recently announced cease-fire in Idlib Governorate (northern Syria), while renewed strikes on the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib after a day when nearly thirty people were killed.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşo أوlu - today, Wednesday, in a speech delivered on the sidelines of the Davos Forum in Switzerland - said that his country is waiting for Russia to abide by its obligations towards the ceasefire, as it is a guarantor of the regime for Syria.

Gawishoglu added that the situation in Idlib is still dangerous, and that the regime's attacks on civilians cannot be accepted in an indiscriminate manner in this region, noting that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated this matter during the meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Libya conference In Berlin.

The Turkish foreign minister also said that Turkey and Russia are cooperating to resolve major crises such as Syria and Libya, despite the differences in views between them.

Ankara and Moscow announced a ceasefire in Idlib from January 12, but the Syrian regime and Russia soon launched large-scale attacks that killed scores of civilians and displaced thousands of others towards the Turkish border.

In the past few days, the system of attacks by Russia and the Syrian regime forces has expanded to the western and southern countryside of Aleppo, amid reports of preparations for a military operation targeting opposition sites there.

New victims
On the ground, the Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that four civilians were killed today by regime forces and Russia's bombing of Aleppo and Idlib countryside, bringing the death toll of civilians over the past two days as a result of regime and Russian aircraft bombing to 31.

Gawishoglu said that continued attacks on Idlib despite the ceasefire were unacceptable (Reuters)

And 27 civilians, including many children and women, were killed yesterday in intense Russian raids in western and southern Idlib and Idlib.

For his part, the civil defense in Idlib said that air strikes this morning targeted the city of Maarat al-Numan and its eastern countryside, and left houses destroyed.

Earlier, the Syrian Response Coordinators organization said that more than 31,000 civilians have been displaced from their towns in the western countryside of Aleppo towards the borders with Turkey since the ceasefire agreement entered into force, while the United Nations has reported the displacement of 350,000 since the start of the military campaign for the forces The regime and Russia northwest of Syria last December.

In the same context, Human Rights Watch reported that the Syrian regime forces launched a ballistic missile equipped with a warhead containing prohibited cluster munitions on a school in the town of Sarmin in the Idlib governorate, which killed 12 civilians, including five children, on the first of this month.

She said that the ages of the dead children ranged between six and thirteen, while 13 civilians and 12 children were injured in the attack on the school.

The organization called on the Syrian government to stop using cluster munitions and target schools, and to hold those responsible accountable.

It also said that Russia - as part of the military alliance - bore a joint responsibility for the use of prohibited weapons and any violations of the laws of war in Syria, and called on it to immediately stop providing ammunition to its ally and urged it to stop using it.

It also called on states to redouble their efforts to hold those responsible for these unlawful attacks to account.