Regime shelling was focused on the town of Tamanaa near Maaret al-Numan, which was seized from
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based conflict monitor, the regime shelled six areas inside and around Idlib.
Opposition held areas of the province are now completely under the control of the "Salvation Government" ‐ the administrative arm of the former al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
(HTS).The group boasts 25,000 fighters, SOHR reports.
The National Liberation Front
...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I
the much belovedhas jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here...
(NLF) ‐ an alliance of rebel groups backed by
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
‐ has withdrawn to the Aleppo countryside and Afrin, leaving HTS in control of all border crossings.
Turkey and Russia brokered a buffer zone agreement between the regime and the armed opposition last autumn to prevent a government offensive, which the UN feared would lead to a bloodbath.
Now that