At least 13 killed in attack in Syria

Idlib: At least 13 people were killed in an air attack on a neighbouring village to the Syrian city of Idlib.

France has called for an immediate end to fighting in the Idlib.

French foreign ministry, also known as the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, on Friday said that it condemned in particular air attacks on refugee camps.

The suspected Russian attack on Friday hit the town of Hass in the south of Idlib province, where people displaced by the violence had congregated. At least 13 people were killed, including a number of children, according to several monitors and the White Helmets civil defence group.

Earlier on Friday, a separate air attack by government forces killed two and injured 23 others, Mustafa Haj Youssef, director of the White Helmets said.

Syrian troops have been on the offensive in Idlib and its surroundings - the last major rebel stronghold in Syria - since late April in a Russia-backed campaign. Fighting has picked up in recent days, after a short-lived ceasefire.

Over the past week, the Syrian army has advanced towards the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province in a pincer movement that could encircle the southern part of the rebel enclave.

The United Nations and aid agencies have warned of a new humanitarian catastrophe in northwestern Syria. President Bashar al-Assad's forces have managed to retake most of the country, crushing rebel enclaves in all the major cities and driving them from the south.

Idlib and the surrounding rebel-held area is home to some three million people, many of whom were displaced in other battles around the war-torn country.

In the last week, during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, some 124,000 civilians were displaced in northern Syria.