"Two non-combatants were killed (an elderly man and a woman) and two others were maimed (a child at death's door and a man) by regime forces rocket strikes that targeted a camp in a residential area on the outskirts of Sarmin in the eastern countryside of Idlib," the White Helmets rescue group said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"The bombing also led to a fire in the camp," the group said, adding that they had put out the fire, treated the injured, and removed the bodies of the dead.
The area is among a stretch of frontline between Syrian government forces and the jihadist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS), the former Syrian branch of al-Qaeda.
HTS is the prominent force among dozens of rebel factions operating in the area and has been internationally recognized as a terrorist organization.
Half of Idlib province, as well as parts of Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia provinces, are the last rebel-held bastions in the country after Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
, with Russian and Iranian support, seized back swathes of territory over the course of the brutal Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011.
Last month, at least eight HTS members were killed when Russian
...KABOOM!...
s targeted their base on the outskirts of Idlib.
In June, artillery shelling by Syrian government forces killed three civilians in rebel-held areas of Aleppo province.
Over 13 million Syrians have been displaced since the start of the civil war, more than six million of which are refugees who have fled the war-torn country, according to a report from the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).