
Explainer: How important is Syria’s Idlib?
What are the humanitarian and regional consequences of launching a military offensive in the last remaining rebel stronghold?
As the Syrian government forces completes its conquest of southwestern Syria, attention is shifting to the province of Idlib on the northwest of the country, the last remaining stronghold of opposition control.
Al Jazeera’s Priyanka Gupta explains why Idlib is so strategically important.
Published On 5 Aug 2018