The strikes on Idlib province, in northwestern Syria along the border with Turkey, came as diplomats scrambled to avert what a U.N. official said could be a bloodbath. Smoke rises after a TNT bomb was thrown from a helicopter, hitting a rebel position during heavy fighting between troops loyal to president Bashar Assad and opposition fighters, in a neighbouring village to Kafr Nabuda, in the Idlib province countryside, Syria. The strikes on Idlib this week came as diplomats scrambled to avert what a U.N. official said could be a bloodbath. ( The Associated Press )Syria’s president, Bashar Assad, has vowed to fight until he regains control of the entire country, and his Russian and Iranian allies have been hinting that the battle for Idlib was imminent. The province has an array of rebel forces including jihadis associated with Al Qaeda, which Syria and its allies say they must get rid of.

Source: thestar September 04, 2018 20:37 UTC