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Geneva: The United Nations voiced concern on Monday about an escalation in fighting and air strikes in Syria's Idlib province, where 2.5 million civilians have "no place else to go" within their homeland.
White Helmets civil defence workers and civilians inspecting damaged buildings after airstrikes hit in the village of Zardana, in Idlib province, on Friday.
Photo: White Helmets/APPanos Moumtzis, UN regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, called on major powers to broker a negotiated settlement to end the war and avoid a bloodbath in Idlib."
"We worry about 2.5 million people becoming displaced towards Turkey ... There is no other location to move them to (in Syria)," he said in Geneva.
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An aid convoy reached the town of Douma in the enclave of eastern Ghouta outside Damascus on Sunday, but the Syrian government did not allow UN staff to accompany it, Moumtzis said.