Regime and Russian air strikes on Monday killed nine civilians in northwest Syria, where heightened bombardment has claimed hundreds of lives since late April, a war monitor said. Russian air raids on several areas in the south of Idlib province left six civilians dead, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Regime air raids killed three civilians in the same region, which is controlled by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Britain-based monitor added. The bombardment wounded 20 other civilians in total, it said.

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