Massyaf: Opposition activists and Syrian state media are reporting that at least 13 people have been killed in fighting between government forces and insurgents in the northwestern part of Syria.
Recent violence has increasingly tested a Russia-Turkey sponsored truce in place since September that has averted a government offensive on insurgent-held Idlib and surrounding areas.
The area is home to three million people.
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Insurgents lobbed missiles at the government-held city of Massyaf in the adjacent Hama province, killing at least five people, according to the local hospital's director Maher Younis who spoke to the state-run media house.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and first responders, known as the White Helmets, say at least eight people were killed on Sunday in government shelling of Saraqeb and Nairab towns in eastern Idlib.
