Syrian regime ‘begins bombing last rebel enclave of Idlib killing 17 civilians including kids’ amid fears of Aleppo-style mass-slaughter

FORCES battling the regime of Bashar al-Assad are boxed into their last enclave amid fears of an Aleppo style bloodbath among trapped civilians.

Syrian government forces have been shelling and bombing the northwest of the country, with at least 17 civilians killed over the past 24 hours, a war monitoring group said today.

The government forces’ artillery fire targeted several locations and about half of those killed were under 18 years old, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

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