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The Syrian Arab News Agency stated that a drone attack targeted the town of Qardaha, the birthplace of the family of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on Friday, with two missiles, killing one person and slightly wounding another.

The attack came a day after the agency published news of a drone attack on the government-controlled town of Salhab in northwestern Syria, near the opposition areas. killing a woman and a child.

The two attacks on Qardaha and Salhab, which are 35 kilometers apart, come amid an escalation of fighting in the northwest, in light of mutual shelling operations between the Syrian government forces and the opposition on some front lines.

Al-Qardaha is about 10 kilometers away from the Russian Hmeimim Air Base. The Syrian opposition said that Russian warplanes had recently targeted rebel-held areas. Sources from both sides said that the Syrian government forces have strengthened their deployment in some frontline areas.

Most of the major fighting in Syria has stopped, with the situation on the front lines largely stabilizing over the past few years after the government regained control of most of the country with the help of Russia and Iran.

However, the opposition fighters, with the support of Turkey, still control an enclave in the Idlib governorate in the northwest, near Qardaha and Salhab, and sporadic battles break out between them and the Syrian government forces.

Reuters