The insurgent-held province of Idlib is witnessing a surge in violence involving factions in the country's civil war and the international powers backing them.
Syria's final insurgent-held province, Idlib, is witnessing a surge in violence involving factions in the country's nearly nine-year civil war as well as the international powers backing them, with civilians caught in the crossfire.
Turkey supports some Syrian opposition groups and has already deployed troops to Idlib in hopes of maintaining a cease-fire deal brokered with Moscow in 2018. An aerial view taken February 19 shows destroyed buildings in the Syrian town of Ihsim in Idlib province. The northwestern province is a battleground for violent encounters and competing interests of both domestic and international forces.Despite deploying hundreds of troops to Syria, the Pentagon has largely stayed on the sidelines of the fight for Idlib. The U.S.
This combination of pictures shows a Turkish military mobile rocket launcher firing from a position near the village of Miznaz, on the western outskirts of Syria's Aleppo province, at Syrian government forces on February 14. Turkey and Syria have engaged in isolated attacks over the course of the civil war, but recent deadly exchanges threaten to bring the countries into conflict.
Syrian government forces in the area of Al-Lirmoun, north of Aleppo, on February 17. Syrian troops and allied forces backed by Russia successfully retook the strategic M5 highway that connects four major cities in an intense assault that further isolated rebels and jihadis in the northwest.Moscow has accused Ankara of failing to honor its commitments to ensure the withdrawal and disarmament of jihadi groups such as the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham coalition in Idlib.
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