Turkey’s withdrawal in Idlib may be omen of war - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Fehim Tastekin

Fehim Tastekin

Oct 22, 2020

A Turkish military convoy drives through the village of Iblin, near Ariha in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on October 20, 2020 after vacating the Morek post in Hama's countryside. - Turkey started withdrawing from one of its largest outposts in northwest Syria encircled for the past year by Syrian regime forces, a war monitor and a pro-Ankara rebel commander said. The outpost in Morek is Turkey's largest in the northwest province of Hama, which is now mostly under Syrian government control. — A Turkish military convoy drives through the village of Iblin, near Ariha in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on Oct. 20, 2020, after vacating the Morek post in Hama's countryside. — OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images

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