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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Q&A: Syria’s Assad sets sights on Idlib, the final showdown?
2019-05-11
[Rudaw] After eight months of relative calm, Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib is once again a theater for bloody military operations: heavy bombardment, Arclight airstrikes and waves of civilian displacement as Syrian government troops, backed by Russia, push their way into the rebel-held enclave in a widening offensive.

The violence of the past week threatens to completely unravel a crumbling cease-fire agreement reached between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
and Russia at the Black Sea resort of Sochi in September last year, which averted a potentially devastating assault by the Syrian government to retake the province.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  The Zeno's paradox of the middle east. It's always halfway to being captured /suppressed / pacified.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-05-11 08:36  

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