Syrian regime artillery fire batters Maarat al Numan town and nearby villages in southern Idlib countryside despite ceasefire
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported"around 3,000 people" returned to the northern Hama and the southern Idlib countryside from other areas under regime control.
Artillery fire battered Maarat al Numan town and nearby villages in the south Idlib countryside over the past two days, after warplanes struck there on Thursday. "Thousands of citizens return to their villages and towns of the northern Hama countryside and the southern Idlib countryside," state news agency SANA said.
State media said the returns came amid "government efforts to return the displaced to their towns and villages".
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