The Syrian army reflects on Thursday a massive attack by Pro-Turkish terrorists in the village of Neirab Idlib province, fierce clashes With the support of aircraft and artillery, the Radio station Sham FM.

"The Syrian army reflects the attempt of the attack of armed groups With the assistance of the army of Turkish invaders in the Neirab area to the West of the city Sarakibe Idlib province. Fierce fighting, involving artillery and air strikes on positions terrorists ", - the journalist of radio.

according to him, the militants unsuccessfully tried to advance in the area of Neirab, army SAR managed to eliminate several pieces of military equipment and destroy some terrorists.

The radio station said that militants could not capture fresh settlements.

the head of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad on the first day of the week said that the Syrian army will continue the liberation of the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, despite the reactions in Turkey.

The General staff military power of Syria said on 9 February about the release of more than 600 square kilometers in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib from militants in military operations, and the troops advancing from the East, Idlib province, met with the troops coming from the South of the province of Aleppo. The military released a key city Sarakibe at the crossroads of international routes M4 (Latakia - Aleppo) and M5 (Damascus - Aleppo) and the large town of Maaret al Nuuman. Also, the Syrian army established oversight of the entire road to Damascus-Aleppo (M5), the only exception is a small area near the town of Maaret al Nuuman, blocked by the Turkish military, on Sunday, she established full control of all the villages around Aleppo for the first time since 2012, thereby securing it from has already become periodic shelling of terrorists.

first Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey until not received an unsatisfactory outcome in the negotiations with Russia on the Syrian Idlib and ready for the beginning of hostilities in the region. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov called this the worst scenario.

Erdogan said before that he tried to convince his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to exert pressure on the President of the Syrian Republic Assad to the Syrian army stopped its advance in Idlib and moved to the end of February from Turkish observation posts, threatening otherwise military response.

In accordance with the agreement reached in may 2017 at the talks in Astana (now Nur-Sultan) by the representatives of Russia, Iran and Turkey, in the Syrian Arab Republic was established four zones of de-escalation. The three of them in 2018 under the supervision of Damascus. The fourth area located in the district of Idlib and parts of neighboring provinces of Latakia, Hama and Aleppo, remain beyond the government of the Republic. A large part of it captured by terrorists from grouping "dzhebhat an-Nusra" *. In September 2018, the Russian Federation and Turkey have agreed in Sochi on the creation of a demilitarized zone in Idlib, where more than a dozen different groups.

* A terrorist group banned in Russia.



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