DUBAI: Syrian regime forces bombed areas in southern Idlib on Friday morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Forces used rocket-propelled grenades in Al-Fatira and Kansafra and Sufuhn in Jabal Al-Zawiya in the southern countryside of Idlib. No casualties were reported. The Syrian regime also targeted Al-Ankawi and Qalidin in the Al-Ghab Plain northwest of Hama. On Thursday evening, Russian warplanes launched several raids on Kabana hills in Jabal Al-Akrad in the north-eastern countryside of Latakia. Violence has erupted in recent weeks in a strategic Syrian city between government forces and former rebels.