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At least four people have been killed as the Syrian government and Russian warplanes targeted the southern edge of Idlib province with an intense wave of airstrikes and shelling on Saturday, activists and a war monitoring group said.
Those killed include two children and a woman, most of them in Abdeen.
The intense air raids came a day after Iran and Russia backed a military campaign in the rebel-held area despite Turkey's pleas for a cease-fire. Turkey has troops and 12 observations points that ring Idlib.
State-run Al-Ikhbariya TV said the government was retaliating against overnight shelling from rebel-held areas on a government-held town in Hama province, south of Idlib. The shelling late Friday in Mhradah killed nine civilians, according to state media.
But the government and Russian raids targeted a wide swath of rebel-held area in the southern edge of the rebel-held enclave that includes most of Idlib province and northern Hama province.
On Saturday, the spokesman for the Turkish president criticized world players for their lack of action to stop a looming offensive against the last remaining rebel stronghold in northwestern Syria.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported more than 68 air raids in the southwestern Idlib town of Khan Sheikhoun, and other villages and towns in the province and in northern Hama.
Source: Fox News