• A Syrian child receives treatment at a makeshift hospital following an airstrike on a vegetable market in Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on Tuesday. Suspected government airstrikes killed at least 44 civilians at two markets in a part of northwestern Syria controlled by the war-torn country's al-Qaida affiliate, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. | AFP-JIJI
    A Syrian child receives treatment at a makeshift hospital following an airstrike on a vegetable market in Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on Tuesday. Suspected government airstrikes killed at least 44 civilians at two markets in a part of northwestern Syria controlled by the war-torn country's al-Qaida affiliate, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. | AFP-JIJI

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BEIRUT – Airstrikes on two markets killed up to 50 people in northwest Syria on Tuesday, as Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power also launched strikes against rebels in the province of Latakia, a rebel group and a conflict monitor said.

Targets included towns and villages where a partial truce agreement had brought about a lull in fighting between the government and rebels since Feb. 27. That agreement has unraveled in recent weeks.

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