Shelterless Syrians burn refuse for warmth in bitter Idlib winter

Internally displaced children stand on snow near tents at a makeshift camp in Azaz, Syria February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

AMMAN/GENEVA (Reuters) - Families fleeing air strikes and advancing troops in Syria's Idlib province are sleeping rough in streets and olive groves, and burning toxic bundles of rubbish to stay warm in the biting winter weather, aid workers say.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been uprooted by a Syrian government assault which has corralled ever growing numbers of people into a shrinking pocket of land near the Turkish border.