MAARET AL-NOMAN: Militants and allied rebels withdrew from a key area of northwestern Syria on Tuesday , a war monitor said, as President Bashar al-Assad's forces pressed an offensive against the militant-run Idlib region.
And in recent weeks, regime forces have inched forward, nibbling away at the southern edges of the bastion.In the early hours of Tuesday, anti-Assad fighters pulled back from the town of Khan Sheikun and the countryside to its south, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
Russia claimed rebel attacks against a key Russian air base to the west of Idlib and on regime-held civilian areas had continued despite the presence of the Turkish posts. On Monday, a Turkish military convoy crossed the border into Idlib and headed south along the highway, drawing condemnation from Damascus.
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