While the world focuses on Iran, a tragedy is ‘unfolding before our eyes’ in Idlib
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Trump had asked Putin to protect the city
US President Donald Trump asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, “Please, take it easy with Idlib,” when they met at the G-20 Summit in Osaka on June 28.
Russia had been providing air support for the Syrian government's military offensive in Idlib province, which the top UN humanitarian official described as a “humanitarian disaster unfolding before our eyes.” With most of the world’s attention on the threat of further escalation between the United States and Iran in the Gulf, the disaster in Idlib continues to play out with strikingly little urgency.
Unless Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad call off the siege, the unfolding disaster almost certainly will continue.
