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The Takeaway: Are Syria, Turkey and HTS preparing for final battle in Idlib?

The last stronghold of armed groups anticipates a showdown with Russian-backed Syrian forces, as Idlib’s citizens pay a terrible price; my podcast conversation with Sultan Al-Qassemi on Arab art!

Syrians sit in the back of a passing pick-up truck loaded with wood as Turkish soldiers deploy at the site of an improvised explosive device which hit a joint Turkish-Russian patrol on the strategic M4 highway, near the Syrian town of Ariha in the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on July 14, 2020. - Three Russian and several Turkish soldiers were wounded in Syria's restive Idlib province when a joint military patrol was hit by an improvised explosive device, Russia's defence ministry said. (Photo by
— IBRAHIM YASOUF/AFP via Getty Images

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