Ankara today called for an “end to attacks” on the city of Idlib and its surroundings, the last stronghold of jihadists and rebels in northwestern Syria, after a series of raids by the Russian and Syrian air forces. “We asked for an end to the attacks. The recent clashes have caused an unwanted escalation of tensions in the border region,” Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Öçü Keçeli said, referring to “the developments in Idlib and its border region.” This is Turkey’s first official reaction since the jihadists’ lightning offensive against the Syrian regime began, which took them over two days into Aleppo, the country’s second largest city. “It is of major importance for Turkey to avoid a new phase of even greater instability and not to harm civilians,” the ministry estimates. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a large network of sources of information in Syria, the jihadist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allied groups, […]
Source: News Beast
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