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Syria’s Assad visits Idlib front line: presidency
DAMASCUS, Oct 22, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited
government troops on the front line with jihadists in Idlib Tuesday, his
first visit to the northwestern province since the start of the conflict.
“President Assad meets members of the Syrian army on the front line in the
town of Hbeit in the Idlib countryside,” the president’s office said on its
social media networks.
The Idlib region of some three million people has been protected by a
Russian-brokered ceasefire deal since August 31, but skirmishes persist on
the ground.
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