[AlMasdar] The faceless myrmidons in the Syrian Idlib province are likely to be moved to the Jisr al-Shughur | ...in 2015 the city was captured by an alliance of Salafist insurgents, including al-Qaeda's al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham, and the Turkistan Islamic Party. The city has become a stronghold of the TIP, and reportedly 3,500 Uyghurs have since settled there. By July 2017, the city was under joint control of Al Nusra/Tahrir al-Sham and the Turkistan Islamic Party... |
"Most likely, all faceless myrmidons will be moved to one area ‐ Jisr al-Shughur. This place already now has almost no civilians," Afandi said.
The opposition member noted that the main issue would be how to remove faceless myrmidons from the city of Idlib.
"The main question now is how to remove Nusra* from the city of Idlib... For civilians, corridors will be opened," he added.
While the Syrian government has eliminated faceless myrmidons in vast territories of the country, Idlib is still occupied by the bully boys. Since late August, tensions have escalated in the region, with Russia claiming that faceless myrmidons were preparing a false-flag chemical attack there, set to provoke a western retaliatory strike.
The West, meanwhile, tends to believe that it is Damascus that plans to carry out an attack against civilians.
According to the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
, Idlib is the base for approximately 10,000 members of the Nusra Front and Al Qaeda* terrorist groups.
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
Influences Opposition Groups in Idlib to Separate From Terrorists
TURKEY INFLUENCES OPPOSITION GROUPS IN IDLIB TO SEPARATE FROM TERRORISTS
The opposition representative also noted that Ankara was trying to make moderate opposition fight against faceless myrmidons in the region.
"Erdogan has the intention of reconciliation. Already now Turkey is actively influencing gangs on the ground in Idlib to make them reconcile and agree to fight against Nusra faceless myrmidons with the government, having Russia as the guarantor of their survival," Afandi said.
He expressed hope that the situation in the province would be the same as it was in Daraa.
"Russian military police would monitor Idlib and guarantee that the government does not attack the military groups who decided to surrender, while these military groups take the side of the fight against terrorism. The situation will be similar to that of Daraa," Afandi added.
The Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria is under the responsibility of Turkey as a guarantor state, and Russia expects Ankara to facilitate the difficult process of separating moderate opposition groups from faceless myrmidons in the area, Russian special presidential envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentyev announced last week in Geneva after the guarantors’ meeting.
"Armed opposition groups in Idlib have only one condition ‐ to prevent any Iranian presence in Idlib. This condition will be voiced by Erdogan to Putin," Afandi said in the wake of the meeting between Russian and
Last week, Lavrentyev said that terrorists’ surrender would be the best option for solving the situation in the Idlib province, in order to prevent casualties among civilians.