FILE PHOTO: Mustafa Karim, a taxi driver, is pictured in front of his destroyed house in Aleppo's Salaheddine district, Syria April 13, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki/File Photo
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thousands more people have fled violence in northwest Syria, the United Nations and a medical agency said on Thursday, as an army assault on the last big rebel enclave met a counter-attack.
President Bashar al-Assad launched his offensive at the end of April in Idlib and parts of adjacent provinces with an intense bombardment, saying insurgents had broken a truce.
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