Three children injured in Syrian regime bombing of Idlib province

Three children were injured on Thursday in Assad regime bombing of rebel-held areas of Syria’s Idlib province.

Mohammed Al-Daher, a media activist, told The New Arab’s Arabic-language sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that one of the children was injured when the regime launched missiles and shells at residential areas at the village of Al-Sahn in southern Idlib province.

Two more children, one aged seven, were injured when the regime bombed the village of Maar Baleet also in southern Idlib.

Elsewhere in Syria, Ankara's forces shelled positions belonging to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Aleppo province on Thursday, after the Kurdish-led force bombed a Turkish base in the area.

Also on Thursday, France repatriated 40 children and 15 women from the Kurdish-controlled Rawj and Al-Hol camps in eastern Syria. The camps hold family members of foreign suspected Islamic State group militants in addition to Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

It marked the largest such repatriation in three months and came a week after a European rights court condemned France over its refusal to return two women detained in Syria.

Local sources also told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Maria Lvova-Belova, a representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had arrived in Qamishli in northeastern Syria to repatriate Russian children from the camps.