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Tehran 6 February _Russia says a number of its troops have been killed during attacks launched by militants from Turkey’s de-escalation zone in Syria’s Idlib province, where an intensified offensive is underway by the Syrian army forces against foreign-backed militant outfits.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_“There has recently been a dangerous increase in tension and a surge of violence in Idlib,” Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday, adding, “Russian and Turkish military experts were tragically killed” there, without giving a toll.
The Syrian army, backed by Russian air cover, has already regained almost all territories once controlled by terrorists, except portions of Aleppo and large swaths of Idlib, the last stronghold of Takfiri militants, particularly the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
The Russian ministry said Idlib-based militants had staged “more than 1,000 attacks in the last two weeks of January” from a Turkish-controlled de-escalation zone in the flashpoint province. It stressed that most of the attacks had been conducted by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militant group.
The area was proclaimed a demilitarized zone under the Moscow-Ankara agreements. Back in mid-January, Russian and Turkish forces tried to impose a “regime of silence” there, however, the attacks only increased.
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