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2019-10-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Idlib front is main battle to end Syria war: Assad
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[DAWN] Defeating murderous Moslems in Idlib is the key to ending Syria's eight-year-old civil war, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
said on Tuesday on his first visit to the embattled northwestern region since 2011.
"The battle of Idlib is the basis for resolving chaos and terrorism in all other areas of Syria," Assad's office quoted him as telling troops in the frontline town of al-Hbeit.
It published a picture of the president surrounded by troops dressed in military fatigues, with maps hanging behind them.
His comments came as Syrian troops continued to deploy in parts of the north where they are supporting Kurdish forces to contain a Ottoman Turkish invasion, according to state news agency SANA.
Assad denounced Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan as a thief for attacking the northeast of his country and reiterated a pledge to retake all areas lost to Damascus in years of civil war.
"Erdogan is a thief and is now stealing our land," state media quoted Assad as saying.
After turning the tide of the war, Assad's forces now control around 60 per cent of the country and the president has repeatedly vowed to return all of it to his control, including Idlib.
The Idlib region, which has some three million residents, half of them displaced from other parts of the country, is the last major rebel bastion in Syria.
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...
‐ an alliance led by Syria's former Al Qaeda affiliate ‐ extended its administrative control over the whole of Idlib in January, but other rebel factions remain present.
In April, the Syrian government and its Russian allies launched an intensified bombardment of the region.
In August, government troops began a ground offensive that saw them retake several areas in southern Idlib, including the town of al-Hbeit, which was among the first to fall.
An August 31 ceasefire brokered by Russia largely halted air strikes and festivities with heavy weapons, but skirmishes persist, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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