FILE PHOTO: A man rides on a motorbike past rubble of damaged buildings in the city of Idlib, Syria May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
BEIRUT (Reuters) - 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 Saturday.
An air strike in the village of Deir killed seven people, mostly children, on Saturday morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. On Friday, air strikes in the village of al-Haas killed 13 people. The dead included a pregnant woman and her unborn baby, local activists and the Observatory said.
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