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The Eleventh Hour for Idlib, Syria’s Last Rebel Bastion
The Syrian regime’s deliberate but devastating campaign to retake Idlib has picked up in intensity, threatening death and displacement at levels unseen in...
Damascus and its Russian backers must conclude an immediate ceasefire with rebel forces.
The worst humanitarian catastrophe of the Syrian war may be about to unfold.
- ICG
On 28 January, forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad’s regime captured densely populated centres south of Idlib, capital of the north-western province of the same name that is the rebellion’s last redoubt.
Russia aided the regime forces’ advance with…