REYHANLI, Turkey/AMMAN (Reuters) – Turkey shot down a Syrian federal government warplane on Tuesday over northwest Syria, where battling has actually intensified in current days, bringing Turkish and Russian forces close to direct conflict in the battle over the last swathe of Syria still held by rebels.
A still image drawn from a video obtained by Reuters and shot on March 2, 2020, reveals Syrian army soldiers advancing on the town of Kfar Nabl, Syria. Reuters TV/via REUTERS
It was the 3rd Syrian warplane Turkey has actually shot down because Sunday in an escalating project versus President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. NATO-member Turkey supports the rebels, while Assad counts on his superpower ally Russia.
With more than a million refugees accumulating because December on the Turkish border, the fight for Syria’s Idlib province has actually brought what the United Nations fears may be the worst humanitarian crisis of the nine-year-old Syrian civil war.
” This relief operation has been overwhelmed. There requires to be more of whatever. The very first thing is cash,” U.N. Under-secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock informed press reporters at a trans-shipment point for products in southern Turkey.
Fighting was raving north of the tactical crossroads town of Saraqeb, recaptured on Monday by Syrian soldiers, one of several times the town, which controls access to Idlib city and Aleppo, has actually changed hands in recent weeks.
Syrian state media said the army was now combing the town and had