Syrian army forces have made further progress in the northwestern province of Idlib, controlling several villages and towns, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, according to diplomats that discussions began this week among some members of the UN Security Council. On a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in Idlib, Syria, initiated by Kuwait, Germany and Belgium.
In detail, yesterday, seven civilians, including two children, were killed in Syrian army bombardment of two villages in the southern countryside of Idlib, according to the Observatory, the day after 12 civilians were killed in raids on residential neighborhoods in Ma'aret al-Nu'man city.
According to the Syrian Observatory, "the army managed to make further progress in the southern countryside of Idlib," and took control of the towns of al-Tamanea and al-Khwain, as well as three villages east of Khan Sheikhoun.
The director of the observatory, Rami Abdulrahman, said that «the army forces are seeking to expand further in the vicinity of Khan Sheikhoun, and progress north towards the city of Maarat al-Numan», which is also located on the international road «the goal of the main army forces now». In the city of Maarat al-Numan, where 12 civilians were killed yesterday, half of them children, AFP photographers saw at night paramedics pulling a child covered in blood. In the ambulance, a paramedic, bending his head grieving, put a baby in his lap that looked white from dust.
At the hospital, the reporter saw the bodies of four children lying on the floor. A man cried with his hands on his face. The man bends over near the children, looks at them and it seems that (Omar) the oldest does not exceed five years. On the same hospital beds are also distributed infected children, including a girl whose head is fully bandaged and the last to which a vaccine has been suspended.
This comes at a time when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the agreement reached with the United States, a step in the right direction towards the establishment of a "safe zone" in northeastern Syria, and should not be delayed.
The Anatolia news agency reported that the Turkish president spoke by telephone with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, and decided to continue cooperation to protect civilians in the Syrian region of Idlib, and to avoid new humanitarian crises in the northwest of the country.
CNN Turk quoted Erdogan as telling reporters during a return trip from Moscow, where he met his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that Turkish troops were on standby on the border with Syria, and that the process of an agreement with the United States should go ahead. At a fast pace.
Asked whether the use of Russian Sukhoi 35 and Sukhoi 57 planes was among the alternatives to buying the US F-35, Erdogan said: "Why not?" In New York, diplomats said discussions began this week among some members of the UN Security Council on a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in Idlib. The draft resolution also aims to stop attacks on medical facilities in this northwestern region of Syria, and to demand that the parties According to the same sources, the warring parties are protecting civilians and medical personnel.
A draft resolution in the Security Council to stop attacks on medical facilities in northwestern Syria, and demanding the warring parties to protect civilians and medical personnel.