Assad regime kills three in northwest Syria strikes: Monitor

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Artillery shells by Syrian government forces on Wednesday killed three civilians in the last major rebel-held territory in northwest Syria, a war monitor reported.

Three civilians including a child were killed in heavy regime artillery shelling on the town of Kafr Noran in western Aleppo province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that two more civilians and six rebels were injured.

Half of Idlib province, as well as parts of Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia provinces, are the last rebel-held bastions in the country after President Bashar al-Assad seized back swathes of territory over the course of the brutal Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011.

Earlier on Wednesday, projectiles fired by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) killed a soldier of the Syrian government in regime-held areas of Idlib province, according to the Observatory.

The HTS is the former Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda and is the prominent force among dozens of different rebel factions operating in the area. It has been internationally recognized as a terrorist organization.

Over 13 million Syrians have been displaced since the start of the civil war, more than six million of which are refugees who have fled the war-torn country, according to a report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

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