<span style="color: #222222;">In Syria, 19 civilians including eight children were killed in air strikes by regime and Russian forces in the country's last major opposition bastion yeserday. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the air raids in the northwestern region of Idlib also injured several others.<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Observatory said air strikes by regime ally Russia killed four civilians including a child in the village of Al-Bara in the south of the region. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The war monitor said that Russian raids also killed nine civilians including three children in the nearby village of Balyun. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Britain-based monitor informed that crude barrel bombs dropped by government helicopters killed five civilians including three children in the village of Abadeeta and a raid by a regime aircraft killed another child in the village of Bajghas.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Idlib region is controlled by the country's former Al-Qaeda affiliate and Damascus regime has repeatedly vowed to take back control of Idlib.</span><br />