Regime bombardment kills 2,382 civilians in Syria’s Idlib: Monitor

Syrian regime forces killed 2,382 civilians in Idlib province in indiscriminate bombardments in little over a year, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a report it released in Arabic on Wednesday.

The report noted that civilian deaths account for over three-quarters of the 3051 deaths the regime was responsible for that it recorded in Idlib province between May 2014 and June 2015.

It argued that the high civilian death toll indicated the indiscriminate nature of the regime’s bombardment, noting that many of the deaths had occurred dozens of kilometers from active front lines in the province.

Those killed by the regime amounted to the vast majority of the 3,534 deaths the network recorded in the province.
The remainder were killed by armed opposition groups, among them the Islamic State group, which was responsible for 86 deaths in Idlib province during this period.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that about 1,300 civilians had been killed or wounded by the regime’s air force in the Eastern Ghouta region near the capital Damascus in the last ten days.

The observatory recorded 247 civilian deaths, including 50 children and 25 women, and noted that many of the more than 1,000 wounded were in a very serious condition.