BEIRUT – Air strikes have killed more than two dozen civilians including 11 children in rebel-held northwestern Syria in the last two days in an escalation of a Russian-backed offensive, a war monitor and local activists said on August 17.
Reuters: Civilian death toll mounts as Syrian offensive widens
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / This picture taken on August 17, 2019 shows the bodies of victims of a reported air strike on the village of Deir Sharqi on the eastern outskirts of Maaret al-Numan in Syria's northern province of Idlib, lying in a Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) ambulance.
