No changes to the Idlib map

About two weeks after the Russian raid that targeted a “Sham Legion” camp near Turkey in the Kafr Takharim area of ​​the Idlib countryside, the Idlib region appears to be quieter than expected. Since the armed factions did not register severe reactions, they were content to bombard some army sites. The Syrian, who in turn responded to the sources of fire. The parties have resumed all their activities that they were carrying out before the Russian incursion, as Turkish forces completed the evacuation of some of the besieged observation points in the Idlib and Hama countryside.

Turkish forces stationed at the 10th observation post, in Sher Maghar village in northwestern Hama countryside, continued to withdraw military vehicles and logistics equipment to Turkish bases in the Jabal al-Zawiya area in southern Idlib countryside. The militia coordinates quoted a source it described as “military” in the armed factions saying: “The Turkish army withdrew, on Saturday morning, a second batch of military and logistical equipment from the Turkish observation point stationed in the village. by Sher Maghar “. The source noted that “the number of vehicles withdrawn is close to 50 trucks carrying military, engineering and logistics equipment,” indicating that “they passed through the village of Fleifel in Jabal Al-Zawiya, to the newly established Turkish camp in the village of Qafin in the southwestern countryside of Idlib. ” The source added that with the withdrawal of part of the Turkish forces from the village of Sher Maghar, “the Turkish army withdrew, also in the early hours of Saturday, part of the military and logistical equipment stationed at the eighth point of Maarhatt in the southern countryside. Idlib ”, referring to“ about 50 trucks that ended up in one of the parts. The Turkish army in the village of Nahlia in the southern Idlib countryside. In exchange for these withdrawals, the Turkish forces continued to bring military reinforcements to their points within the Syrian territories, where a few days ago a Turkish military convoy consisting of 25 vehicles with logistics equipment entered through the Kafrlossin crossing in the northern Idlib countryside, towards the Turkish observation points in the de-escalation zone in Idlib. .

Turkish forces continued to evacuate some of the besieged observation points.

In a parallel line, more killings and drone attacks were observed in the Idlib region, as several foreign militants belonging to the “Al-Sham Liberation Headquarters” were killed and injured, after a plane failed. manned to target a military point for them in the Sarjah area, in the southern Idlib countryside. The drone is believed to belong to the “international coalition” led by the United States of America. At this time, the Reconciliation Center of the Russian Defense Ministry in Syria announced that the militants in Idlib “are occupying positions of moderate formations, which may indicate the existence of plans to escalate the situation in order to undermine agreements between Turkey. and Russia “. Two days ago, the deputy head of the Center for Reconciliation, Alexander Greenkiewicz, said that the militants of the “Al-Nusra Front” “have increased their bombardment from the lands of the de-escalation zone in Idlib,” noting that “39 Syrian soldiers have dead and more than 40 injured since October. ” Last October. “In a briefing on conditions on the ground, Greenkiewicz added:” The Russian air force and the Syrian armed forces do not bombard civilian targets. At the same time, we noticed a significant increase in the violation of the ceasefire regime by illegal armed formations loyal to the Al-Nusra Front. “He added that the militants of” Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, “deployed in the contact line with government forces in Jabal Al-Zawiya, south of Idlib governorate, “they are disarming moderate militants and occupying their positions, which may indicate plans by armed formations to exacerbate the situation, in order to disrupt the implementation of the Russian-Turkish agreements “.
Meanwhile, Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron expressed “concern about activating the role of extremist militants from the Middle East in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in the Karabakh region.” The Russian Presidency said in a statement that “great concern has been expressed about the continued large-scale clashes in the conflict zone and the activation of the pace of participation by Syrian extremists in it.” In the same context, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, revealed that “the associated intelligence in the Middle East helped Moscow to obtain accurate information on the participation of Syrian militants in the battles of Karabakh.” Naryshkin said in a television interview: “We have accurate information about the presence of terrorists in the combat zone (Karabakh region), including from the Middle East, and from Syria in the first place.” Naryshkin confirmed the involvement of Turkish intelligence in the Karabakh events, saying: “We feel the work of the Turkish intelligence and we see certain elements of this work.”

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