The League of Arab States called on the conflicting parties on the Syrian soil to an immediate cease-fire, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened yesterday that "Damascus will pay the price of attacks targeting his forces and finally claimed the lives of 33 elements in northwestern Syria," after nearly a month of continued escalation between two sides.

In detail, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Abul-Gheit, called the conflicting parties on the Syrian soil to an immediate cease-fire in the northwest of the country, and warned in a statement of him the danger of the escalation of military confrontations resulting from regional and international interventions on the Syrian scene, which contributed to the aggravation of the field situation Undermining the chances of a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis, and the repercussions of this turbulent situation on the security and stability of Syria and then the region.

Abul-Gheit said that the military escalation in northwestern Syria constituted a blatant example of a violation of international humanitarian law, and caused an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe by displacing more than a million displaced Syrians and continuing targeting civilian facilities from schools and hospitals, stressing the importance of all parties' commitment to cease-fire decisions and agreements.

In this context, Abul-Gheit stressed the responsibility of the Security Council in establishing an immediate humanitarian truce and providing urgent assistance to more than three million Syrians, calling for launching serious negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations with the aim of activating the political track and pushing towards the implementation of the political process in accordance with Security Council Resolution 2254, stressing However, resorting to a military solution will only bring more destruction, displacement and bloodshed.

In addition, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that "Damascus will pay the price of attacks that recently targeted his forces, claiming the lives of more than 30 elements in northwestern Syria," after nearly a month of continuous escalation between the two sides. In a speech to him in Istanbul, he added that he asked Russian President Putin to leave Moscow aside in Syria and leave Turkey to deal with the Syrian army forces alone, while Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Mevlod Chawishoglu, said that his country wants America to send Patriot missiles to support it in Syrian Idlib .

In Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced meetings with Turkish officials during which the focus was on the necessity of reducing the escalation in Idlib, where Syrian forces, with Russian support, launch a massive attack against areas controlled by armed factions backed by Ankara and deployed by Turkish forces.

Last Thursday, Turkey suffered its worst losses in one attack since its military intervention in Syria began in 2016, as at least 33 soldiers were killed in air strikes, which Ankara accused the Syrian army forces of carrying out in Idlib, which raised the death toll of Turkey in Idlib in the past month to 50 soldiers.

A Turkish official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that "his country destroyed a chemical weapons facility south of Aleppo, as well as a large number of targets belonging to the Syrian forces," while Syrian television denied the existence of this facility from the ground up.

On the ground, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that, yesterday, Syrian and Russian fighter planes continued to launch air strikes on the city of Saraqib in Idlib, and Saraqib is located on a major international road, in which the battles were concentrated in the past days.

• Abul-Gheit calls for launching serious negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations, with the aim of activating the political track.