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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia warns situation in Idlib is serious threat to Hmeimim Airbase
2019-01-24
[ALMASDARNEWS] The spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday morning that the current situation in the Idlib province is cause for concern, as its instability is a threat to Russia’s Hmeimim Airbase in neighboring Latakia.

"The current situation around Idlib is of serious concern. The situation in this de-escalation zone is rapidly deteriorating. The territory has actually been taken under the full control of bandidos Lions of Islam from the al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
", Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday, adding that the provocations posed a serious danger to civilians and Syrian troops in the area, as well as to the Russian Hmeymim Airbase, Sputnik News reported.

Earlier this month, the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham seized most of the province from the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front
...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here...
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