From today’s Daily Sabah. The Kremlin’s strategic partner and “special and good” friend Turkey is poised to launch a major military offensive in the area even as it arms the regime in Kiev with combat drones to replicate last year’s slaughter in Nagorno-Karabakh in the Donbass and incite a Kosovo-style “humanitarian” war in Crimea.

Russian attacks on Syria’s Idlib spread panic among civilians

Russia’s continuing attacks on Syria’s last opposition bastion, Idlib, on Saturday injured a man while causing terror and panic among civilians, humanitarian groups reported.

“Russia renewed its attacks on northwestern Syria today. A civilian was seriously injured,” the White Helmets civil defense group wrote on Twitter. They added that Russia targeted a farm in Jisr al-Shoghour city in the western suburbs of Idlib.

“Fixed-wing warplanes, which we believe were Russian, fired missiles at a poultry barn that was being used for sheltering livestock in (the) Shadrani area,” the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said.

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It [the Syrian Network for Human Rights] further called on the international community to take actions against the attacks of the Syrian regime and its ally Russia.

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he situation for the people in Idlib worsened when the Assad regime, backed by Russia, launched an offensive on the province, causing the largest one-time displacement in the history of the Syrian civil war….

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A fragile truce was brokered between Moscow and Ankara in March 2020 in response to months of fighting by the Russia-backed regime….