As Russia and Syria wrapped up 'complex and tense' drills in the Mediterranean, they conducted a flurry of aerial and surface rocket strikes against Islamist-dominated Idlib, also home to millions of civilians.
cited a source in the field as saying that the Syrian army had launched rocket and missile attacks, backed by joint Russian-Turkish air cover, against various frontlines across southern and southeastern Idlib. The assault was said to have"resulted in the killing of many terrorists and the destruction of their military equipment," as Syrian troops prepared for a ground assault.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based monitor with ties to Syria's exiled opposition, reported dozens of dead and wounded amid some 100 air- and surface-to-surface strikes conducted by Syrian and Russian forces across this corner of Idlib. Additional attacks took place near the provincial borders of Hama and Aleppo, where both sources reported that militants shelled apartment buildings in regions under government control.
as Turkey launched its largest cross-border incursion targeting the Syrian Democratic Forces, whose main component, the People's Protection Units , Ankara considered linked to outlawed separatists. Both the U.S. and Russia opposed the attack and secured separate deals with Turkey to halt it. In these northern areas too, however, even joint Russian-Turkish ground patrols have failed to completely curb deadly conflict, in which the Syrian government has partnered with Syrian Kurdish fighters against a common enemy, Turkey and its allied Syrian insurgents.
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