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Q&A: Syria’s Assad sets sights on Idlib, the final showdown?
[Rudaw] After eight months of relative calm, Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib is once again a theater for bloody military operations: heavy bombardment,  s and waves of civilian displacement as Syrian government troops, backed by Russia, push their way into the rebel-held enclave in a widening offensive.The violence of the past week threatens to completely unravel a crumbling cease-fire agreement reached between ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... and Russia at the Black Sea resort of Sochi in September last year, which averted a potentially devastating assault by the Syrian government to retake the province. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-05-11 |
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