(Previous Incident Codes: R4008RS4255)

At least one civilian was reportedly killed and others were wounded in an alleged regime or Russian artillery/airstrike on the village of Babila, Idlib governorate, in the early morning of December 17th, 2019.

The Syrian Human Rights Committee identified a victim killed as Othman Al-Diab. Edlib Media Centre claimed as the only source that the attack “resulted in the martyrdom of civilian IDP families” without specifying the number of civilian deaths. @NagiNajjar reported that beyond the deaths, “several others were wounded”.

The sources made conflicting reports on whether the Russian Armed Forces or the Syrian regime conducted the attack.

While most sources reported that warplanes conducted airstrikes on the outskirts of the city, a number of others, such as Jisr TV, claimed that Syrian regime’s fighters shelled the town with heavy machine guns. Others claim that the belligerents attacked with heavy machine guns from airplanes.