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Five children dead as Russia resumes bombing in northwest Syria

Tensions escalated on the Idlib front in the wake of the Astana talks held in Tehran as Russian airstrikes killed several children.
OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images

ALEPPO — Russia has resumed heavy airstrikes on opposition-held areas in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib. 

On the morning of July 22, Russian warplanes struck a house on the outskirts of the town of al-Jadida in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside, killing seven people including five children and wounding more than 12 others, mostly women and children.

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