The United Nation has said an escalation in attacks on northwest Syria displaced over 150,000 people in the past week,&nbsp; as the Russia stepped up bombardment.<br />''<br />''<br />''David Swanson of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said&nbsp; UN is alarmed by ongoing reports of aerial attacks on population centres and civilian infrastructure, resulting in hundreds of civilians dead and injured.<br />''<br />''<br />''He said more than 152,000 women, children and men have been displaced in Aleppo and Idlib governorates over the past week alone.<br />''<br />''<br />''The northwestern part of Syria controlled by jihadists is made up a large part of Idlib province, as well as adjacent parts of the Aleppo and Hama provinces.<br />''<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The region of some three million people has come under increasing bombardment since the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, a former Al-Qaeda affiliate, took full control of it in January.</span><br />
News On AIR | May 8, 2019 6:28 AM
More than 150,000 displaced in northwest Syria in one week: UN