Idlib

Turkey is illegally occupying Idlib as they protect the terrorists under the command of Mohammed Jolani, formerly allied with Abu Baker Al Baghdadi, the head of ISIS who was killed in Idlib by President Trump.

In addition to Abu al-Qassam al-Urduni, Abu Khallad al-Muhandis (also known as Sari Shihab) was killed in an explosion in Idlib in Aug. 2019 and Abu al-Khayr al-Masri perished in a Feb. 2017 drone strike in Idlib.

The Ministry stressed that the goal of the current military operations in the south of Aleppo and southeast of Idlib is to end the suffering of civilians in Idlib and Aleppo.

They included two students and two teachers who were killed in Idlib city when a school was struck with a cluster bomb-filled rocket, and 10 civilians who were killed in airstrikes on the town of Maarat Misreen in Idlib province.

A damaged statue stands at the Idlib Museum after it reopened on August 13, 2018 in the northern Syrian city of Idlib.

Although the earthquake was felt as far away as Lebanon, closer to home, northern Syria’s Aleppo and Idlib also reportedly saw thousands of building collapse, including two hospitals.

An injured child awaiting treatment at the emergency ward of the Bab al-Hawa hospital, in the opposition-held northern countryside of Syria’s Idlib Province, on the day of the earthquake.

Another two people were killed in an air strike near Idlib city, it said.

Ihlas Mohammed said she heard similar news about her loved ones in a village between Aleppo and Idlib.

Its epicenter was 61 km from the city of Idlib, the capital of the namesake province.

On Saturday, Syrian artillery pounded towns and villages held by rebels in Idlib province, killing seven and wounding 10, according to the opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense, also known as White Helmets.

Parts of the provinces of Idlib and adjacent Aleppo held by Turkey-backed rebels suffered the bulk of the quake’s casualties in Syria – more than 4000 of a death toll exceeding 5800, according to the United Nations and government authorities.

The leader “was killed after direct clashes” with jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province, an IS spokesman said in a recorded message on its channels on the Telegram messaging app, without specifying when he was killed.

The war had already left scars on the family, who live in a tent camp for people displaced by the war on the outskirts of the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria.

Abdelrahman Mohammed, an official in the "Salvation Government" which had been administering HTS-controlled Idlib and parts of adjacent provinces, said they had sent people to Aleppo city to ensure "continuity of services".

Assad and his dynastic family are Alawi, a sect close to Shia Islam, and he is often accused of favouring the community, many of whom reside in Latakia and Tartous close to HTS-held Idlib.

But he left that job in 2021 and joined "the ranks of the revolutionaries" in Idlib, his CV stated.

Fighters and their families boarded green buses and were taken to opposition-held Idlib province.

Government airstrikes in Idlib and Aleppo killed at least 25 people, of which 14 are women and children, according to the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, that operates in opposition-held areas.

Homs and Idlib followed with just under 20,000 deaths.