Russian warplanes used banned phosphoric bombs on the village of Beneen near the city of Idlib and areas in Hama Province, Al Jazeera TV cited the armed Syrian opposition reporting. These airstrikes resulted in large blazes in these regions and a number of locals lost their lives.
These same scenes were repeated in south Aleppo and Russia warplanes dropped such bombs on the city of Hazer located south of Aleppo, the state-run SANA reported in Syria.
Phosphoric bombs were banned based on the 1980 Geneva Agreement and the use of such arms are considered a war crime.