The army of Bashar al-Assad for the first time since 2012, has restored the supervision over the entire international highway M5 Damascus-Aleppo, said Last news the Syrian military source. It happened in the fighting of government forces. The twenty-ninth day of January they released of Maaret al Nuuman, and last Saturday, a key city Sarakibe at the intersection of M5 and M4 (Latakia - Aleppo). on the following day the troops advancing from the East, Idlib province, met with the divisions coming from the South of Aleppo, which allowed us to take the M5 under almost total surveillance. before the beginning of hostilities for the connection between Damascus and Aleppo used a detour through the highway in the desert, which greatly increased the time on the track. Russia, Iran and Turkey in may 2017 in Astana (now Nur-Sultan) came to an agreement on the establishment of 4 areas of de-escalation in the Syrian Arab Republic. 3 of them in 2018, under the supervision of Damascus. The fourth, located in the district of Idlib and parts of neighboring provinces of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo, until not occupied by government troops, most of it from captured terrorists " dzhebhat an-Nusra." * in September 2018, the Russian Federation and Turkey in Sochi signed the agreement on the establishment of a demilitarized zone in Idlib, where more than a dozen different groups. The largest of them - Union of Pro-Turkish groups "national liberation front" and "Dzhebhat EN-Nusra" *, only about 30 thousand terrorists. January 26, 2020, the Syrian Army launched an offensive in the West of Aleppo in connection with daily attacks by terrorists residential areas of the city, the result of which took the life of dozens of civilians. against the backdrop of escalating Ankara and some partners blame Damascus and Moscow in attacks on humanitarian facilities and Turkish military. In Russia and Syria have repeatedly stated that the cause of instability in the region - the actions of terrorists. * A terrorist organization banned in Russia. <span style="color:darkgray