Slaughter in Syria as Assad, Russia take advantage of war in Gaza: 'most violent bombing of civilians'

As Israel's war against Hamas takes much of the world's attention, Syrian regime forces, their Russian allies and loyalist militias led 164 attacks against civilians in Idlib in December 2023.

Ashley Carnahan is a production assistant at Fox News Digital.

On Christmas Day, Russian warplanes killed a family of five near the town of Armanaz, and Syrian regime forces targeted a school in the city of Sarmin, killing one and injuring five.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a U.K.-based war monitoring group, said in 2023, 187 civilians, including 50 children and 28 women, were killed in bombardment, and gunfire by regime forces and 30 civilians, including eight children and seven women, were killed in Russian airstrikes.