One of the Syrian Army's warplanes was targeted by a missile launched by the Turkish Air Force, which led to its downfall in southern Idlib while carrying out a combat mission against the locations of terrorist organizations, according to the Syrian News Agency, "SANA", while Russia confirmed that it will continue its war on terrorism in Syria to On the side of the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held telephone talks on the tensions in Idlib.

"SANA" reported that "the terrorist organizations deployed in Idlib receive direct support from the Turkish regime and by various means and weapons, as this system relies mainly on supporting terrorist groups on drones that provide fire support, as well as exploratory and guidance information for terrorist attacks, in addition to missiles targeting aircraft." The Syrian and Russian Warships ».

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Syrian army was killed and wounded due to the bombing of Turkish march aircraft targeting a military convoy in the area of ​​Ma`rat al-Numan, and intense Turkish bombing of the Syrian army positions in the city of Saraqib and its villages continued, and the observatory stated that nine civilians were killed in an aerial bombardment Idlib.

The fighting continued between the Syrian army and the Turkish-backed armed factions in the southern Idlib countryside, and the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the death of one of its soldiers and the injury of another in an attack by the Syrian forces in Idlib.

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a telephone conversation yesterday, tensions in the Syrian Idlib governorate, and the Kremlin announced that the two leaders expressed their hope that the meeting between Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Moscow tomorrow will produce results that lead to a solution to the conflict .

For his part, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirmed yesterday that his country will continue its war on terrorism in Syria alongside the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

During his visit to the Finnish capital of Helsinki, Lavrov expressed Moscow's hope for an improvement in the situation in Idlib after the Turkish President's visit to his Russian counterpart, and Lavrov said that Russia understands the European Union's concern about the refugee situation in Idlib but will continue its war there.

According to the Kremlin’s statements, the Merkel and Putin talks also touched on the situation in Libya, and the Kremlin mentioned that after the Berlin conference attended by Putin, the two sides stressed the need to adhere to the ceasefire between the two parties to the Libyan conflict.

The US special envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, told a press conference yesterday that the United States is ready to provide Turkey with ammunition and humanitarian aid, and the American ambassador to Turkey David Satterfield confirmed that Washington is considering Ankara's request for air defenses. To this, the linked eastern government of Libya has opened Commander of the Libyan National Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, an embassy in Syria, and called for the union of the two countries to fight the armed groups supported by Turkey in both countries.

France: Turkey's exploitation of migrants is "unacceptable" blackmail

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian accused Turkey yesterday of exploiting migrants to blackmail Europe, and said that Ankara should honor its agreement with the European Union in relation to dealing with refugees on its soil.

"It is unacceptable that Turkey uses the issue of immigrants to pressure Europe," Le Drian told members of the French parliament.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, urged the countries of the European Union yesterday to provide more resources and support to Greece, which is facing a new wave of migrants and refugees from Syria and other parts of the Middle East, and also urged the countries of the Union to "stop the quarrel" and look at the roots The problem of the displaced, he said to reporters in Geneva.

The Turkish Ministry of Interior announced that the number of irregular migrants who crossed Turkish lands to Greece exceeded 130,000, but the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that the statements issued by Turkey and Western countries regarding the influx of refugees and the humanitarian crisis in Idlib are incorrect, and confirmed that the number of those who crossed the border from Syria To Turkey since the beginning of the year does not exceed 35 thousand people.

US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagos announced yesterday that the United States will send $ 108 million in humanitarian aid to the Syrian people.

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Damascus: “The terrorist organizations in Idlib receive direct support from the Turkish regime with various means and weapons.”