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The Jihadist Factor in Syria’s Idlib: A Conversation with Abu Muhammad al-Jolani
As a humanitarian disaster unfolds in Idlib, the last bastion of Syria’s Islamist rebels, the question is whether accommodation is possible between the militants and their foes.
External actors should answer by gauging the insurgents’ ability to maintain calm and their sincerity about aiding civilians.
- ICG
Backed by Russian airpower, the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad is bearing down on Idlib, the last remaining rebel stronghold.
Previous offensives elsewhere in the war-torn country have tripled Idlib’s population, which now stands at roughly three million.
Today, in the face of a…