Airstrike kills 5, injures 10 in Idlib, Syria

IDLIB, SYRIA - AUGUST 21: At least 5 civilians were killed and 10 injured in attacks carried out by Russian and Syrian regime forces in the de-escalation zone in northern Syria on August 21, 2019 in Idlib.The targets included a hospital in the town of Tel Mannis, hit by Russian jets, causing the death of a medical staff, the civil defense group said.. Two people were killed in the town of Bashiriyya and two in the towns of Tukh and Maarshiman in the Idlib de-escalation zone. Turkey and Russia agreed last September to turn Idlib into a de-escalation zone where acts of aggression are expressly prohibited. The Syrian regime and its allies, however, have consistently broken the terms of the cease-fire, launching frequent attacks inside the zone. The de-escalation zone is currently home to some 4 million civilians, including hundreds of thousands displaced in recent years by regime forces from throughout the war-weary country. Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million others displaced, according to UN officials. (Footage by Huseyin Fazil/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)