Militants shell two Shia villages in Syria’s Idlib
Foreign-backed militants in Syria have resumed shelling of two villages in the northwestern province of Idlib.
According to Syrian sources, a child and her father were killed and a dozen other people were injured in the shelling of the villages of Fo’aa and Kefraya on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the UK-based so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said militants fired about 20 missiles on the villages.
A militant group said on Saturday that the 72-hour ceasefire between militants and the allied forces of the Syrian army and the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, in the two villages of Fo’aa and Kefraya as well as the southwestern city of Zabadani was over. The Ahrar al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group said the truce ended as negotiations for an extension had collapsed. The ceasefire went in to effect in the early hours of August 12.
The truce talks centered on the withdrawal of militants from Zabadani, located about 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of the capital, Damascus, and the evacuation of civilians from the two villages, which are the last two government-held villages in Idlib.
Deteriorating humanitarian situation
The resumption of shelling comes as residents of Fo’aa and Kefraya are grappling with a severe shortage of medical supplies amid continued militant attacks.
Dozens of civilians have been killed and hundreds injured in the villages, where thousands of people are under a siege by militants.
The Syrian army, backed Hezbollah fighters, has been engaged in joint operations against militants to flush them out of Idlib.
Militants have been operating against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since March 2011.
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