Idlib Governorate clashes

Violence in northwest Syria has displaced more than 38,500 people in less than two weeks amid increasing hostilities and a looming regime assault on the opposition-held Idlib province, the United Nations said on Sept. 13.

Reuters, Ankara. Turkey is reinforcing its military posts inside Syria's rebel-held province of Idlib, Turkish and Syrian rebels sources say, seeking to deter a government offensive which it says would unleash a humanitarian disaster on its border.

Regime and Russian air raids pounded Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib on Sept. 9 after an overnight lull, killing at least one child, a monitor said.

The leader of Syria's al-Qaida affiliate has vowed to fight on in Idlib province, the country's last major rebel stronghold, in the face of a possible government offensive.

The death toll of an explosion of unknown origin at a weapons depot in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib has risen to 69, mostly civilians, a monitor said Monday.

Syrian rescuers, known as White Helmets, recover bodies in Zardana, in the mostly rebel-held northern Syrian Idlib province, following air strikes in the area late on June 7, 2018. AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADOUR

Turkey has finished establishing military observation posts in the Idlib province of Syria by setting up its 12th and last post, the Turkish army announced in a written statement on May 16.

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have set up the 11th observation post in the Idlib province of northern Syria in a bid to monitor an ongoing truce between the Syrian regime and armed opposition groups, the military announced in a written statement on May 14.

The Turkish Armed Forces has set up the 10th observation post in the Idlib province of northern Syria in a bid to monitor an ongoing truce between the Syrian regime and armed opposition groups, the military announced in a written statement on May 9.

Turkish military on April 3 set up its eighth observation point in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, it stated.