{"id":39053,"date":"2019-04-19T06:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T06:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39053"},"modified":"2019-04-19T06:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T06:24:10","slug":"army-shelling-kills-seven-in-syrias-idlib-says-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39053","title":{"rendered":"Army shelling kills seven in Syria\u2019s Idlib, says monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1484706\/middle-east\" readability=\"79\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: Regime shelling killed seven civilians in Syria\u2019s militant-controlled Idlib region on Thursday, in the latest violence to threaten a seven-month-old truce, a war monitor said.<\/p>\n<p>\nRocket fire targeted a village and an adjacent camp for the internally displaced in Idlib\u2019s southeastern countryside, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>\nTwo women and three children were among the seven civilians killed, the monitor said.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother 30 people were wounded, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\nRegime ally Russia and rebel-backer Turkey in September inked a buffer zone deal to prevent a massive regime offensive on the Idlib region, near the Turkish border.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the region of some 3 million people has come under increasing bombardment since former Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham took full control of it in January.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe UN has expressed concern over escalating violence, warning that the flare-up is threatening aid deliveries to some 2.7 million people in need.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/userimages\/17\/untitled-3_copy_29.png\" width=\"260\">More than 86,500 people fled their homes in February and March as a result of the surge in violence, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\nIran, Russia and Turkey are set to discuss the Idlib deal during a fresh round of talks on April 25-26 in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>\nDelegations from the Syrian regime and armed opposition groups are also expected to participate, according to the Kazakh Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\nIran\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif this week visited Damascus and met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe trio of foreign brokers have taken the diplomatic lead through the so-called \u201cAstana process\u201d that has largely sidelined UN diplomacy since its launch in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\nSyria\u2019s war has killed more than 370,000 people and displaced millions since the conflict began with the repression of anti-government protests in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: Regime shelling killed seven civilians in Syria\u2019s militant-controlled Idlib region on Thursday, in the latest violence to threaten a seven-month-old truce, a war monitor said. Rocket fire targeted a village and an adjacent camp for the internally displaced in Idlib\u2019s southeastern countryside, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Two women and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}