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Idlib, in Syria's northwest, is the last rebel enclave holding out against president Bashar al-Assad's regime. In a rare visit by a foreign journalist, France 24's Wassim Nasr was able to travel to the province, which is under the control of the armed Islamist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, and even speak with the group's leader. Here, he recounts the difficulties getting into the province and his experiences travelling through it.
Syria's Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, assess the damage at the site of regime shelling in the village of Ariha in the northwestern rebel-held Idlib Province. The heavy bombardment by government forces came in apparent retaliation to a drone strike at a Syrian military academy that killed 112 people in government-held Homs on Thursday 5 October. Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, Syrian state media blamed “armed terrorist organisations” for the attack. Swathes of Idlib province are controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, led by Al-Qaeda's former Syria branch. The jihadist group has used drones to attack government-held areas in the past.
Syrians rally against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the city of Binnish in Syria's northwestern rebel-held Idlib province.
Syrian artists Aziz Asmar and Anis Hamdoun paint a mural depicting George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man who died while while being arrested and pinned to the ground by the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, in the town of Binnish in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province.
Displaced Syrians take refuge at a camp as they wait for an expected government assault on Syria's last rebel-held province, Idlib, and surrounding areas that could displace as many as 800,000 people already in a dire humanitarian situation, a representative of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Office (OCHA) warned in Damascus during an interview with AFP.
U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.
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