At least eight people were killed Sunday in air and ground strikes in Syria's Hama and Idlib provinces, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor reported.
According to the Observatory, four civilians were killed in airstrikes on residential neighborhoods in Ariha city in southern Idlib, and two women were killed in a Russian airstrike on a farm between Kafr Zita and al-Zakat in the northern part of Hama.
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A seventh civilian was killed when planes belonging to Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces targets the outskirts of Marshourin, and an eighth person was killed by a missile fired by Assad's forces in southeast Idlib. The guided missile was aimed at a car.
The Monitor reported that in addition to the eight casualties, 25 people had been wounded in the air and ground attacks.
Sunday's violence comes after a Syrian government airstrike hit a busy open-air market in the country's northwest on Saturday, killing at least 11 people, most of them children, according to activists.
The town of Ariha has been particularly targeted over the last week as the government escalates its offensive against the country's last rebel stronghold.
Ariha has been repeatedly targeted over the past week as Syria's government looks to regain momentum in its stalled offensive, which began in late April. It is one of the main towns in Idlib province, which along with the surrounding rural areas of Hama province, are home to 3 million people.
