![Members of the Syrian Civil Defence (White Helmets) cover the body of a woman with a blanket, as they remove it from the rubble of a house hit by regime artillery fire in the village of Ehsim, in the country's last major rebel bastion of Idlib in the northwest, early on July 18, 2021 [OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/d2.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/GettyImages-1234037748-scaled-e1626606470387.jpg?fit=920%2C613&ssl=1)
Six Syrian civilians, including two children, were killed Saturday in shelling from the Bashar al-Assad regime and Iran-affiliated terrorist groups, in breach of a truce in northwestern Idlib de-escalation zone.
Regime forces stationed in the Al-Hamidiya base in southeast Idlib violated the cease-fire by shelling a village with surface-to-surface missiles.
According to the Syria Civil Defense, or White Helmets, an initial assessment of a village in the Jabal al-Zawiya province found that three women were also killed and several civilians injured in the attack.