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Plumes of smoke rise in the mountainous Jabal al-Zawiya area of Syria's Idlib province following bombings by Russian aircraft. The White Helmets volunteer emergency service said that two children were killed and five other civilians wounded when their home in the village of Kansafra was hit. Russia is the main military ally of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. IMAGES
Residents and rescuers search for earthquake victims and survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings in the village of Besnaya in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on the border with Turkey. IMAGES
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a regional summit in the Kazakh capital. IMAGES
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda to the Chancellery in Berlin to discuss the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. IMAGES
Thousands take to the street in Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib to mark ten years since the nationwide anti-government protests that sparked the country's devastating civil war. IMAGES
The leaders of Russia and Turkey meet in Moscow after a surge in fighting in Syria raised fears of their armies clashing and launched a new migrant crisis. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is looking for Putin to agree to a rapid ceasefire in Idlib, the northwestern province of Syria where Ankara is battling Moscow-backed regime forces. IMAGES