Tehran 7 February _Turkey has sent nearly 150 vehicles with commandos and ammunition to bolster its observation outposts in Idlib, where an intensified offensive is underway by the Syrian army forces against foreign-backed militant outfits
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_A Turkish security source said they were only to reinforce the 12 existing posts established under a 2018 deal with Russia, Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported Friday.
Under the deal between Ankara, Moscow and Tehran aimed at reducing violence, Turkey agreed to set up a dozen observation posts in Idlib and neighboring provinces.
Despite Ankara’s commitments under the agreement, a number of Russian troops were recently killed during attacks launched by militants from Turkey’s de-escalation zone in Idlib.
“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 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.
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