<span style="color: #222222;">Syrian forces shelling yesterday killed nine civilians including children in a planned buffer zone around the country's last major rebel bastion. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to  Britain-based  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a teacher and four schoolchildren were among the victims after the shelling hit near a school in the northwestern province of Idlib. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Yesterday's killings are the latest in a string of similar incidents. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">On November 2, regime shelling killed at least five civilians in the same town of Jarjanaz.  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Syria's war has killed more than 360,000 people since it erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests. </span><br />''