Russian warplanes have renewed bombing on Daraa and Idlib provinces, using Napalm and Phosphorus bombs, local activists and media center said Thursday.
At least 8 people were wounded overnight in Napalm bombs attack targeted the town of Jisr al-Shughour in the western countryside. Al-Baragithi village in the eastern countryside was also hit by Russian Phosphorous bombs, Idlib Media Center said.
In southern Daraa province, the Russian jets struck the Old City with cluster and phosphorus bombs.
The use of international forbidden bombs mounted this week after the U.S. cruise missiles strikes that hit Shayrat airfield last Friday in retaliation to the Sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhoun town that left 103 people dead.
Idlib is one of the most important strongholds of rebels, including jihadist factions, who seek to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, whose air force, along with that of his ally Russia, has been heavily bombarding insurgents there.
Russia blocked a Western effort at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to condemn the deadly gas attack and push Moscow's ally to cooperate with international inquiries into the incident.
It was the eighth time during Syria's six-year-old civil war that Moscow has used its veto power on the Security Council to shield Assad's regime.
The peaceful demonstrations that ended up with deadly war carried out by the Syrian regime and key regional players has killed at least 465,000 people, including 150,000 children and has displaced over 12 million people
