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Why Russia and Turkey failed to compromise on embattled Idlib in Syria
[Rudaw] The Syrian regime's latest offensive into Idlib has put unprecedented pressure on the Ottoman Turkish army's southernmost observation posts in the province. This, coupled with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
’s failure to contain the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) group that rules Idlib, may well prove to be the beginning of the end for Turkey's presence in that strategically-important northwestern province.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-08-26
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=548882