The Latest Breaking News from Idlib

Russia expected to use security council veto to block resolution to keep open Bab al-Hawa border crossing into Idlib from Turkey

The Syrian military’s gesture was made in support of the government’s alliance with Russia.

In a bombed-out building in northwest Syria, rescue workers who for years have braved Russia's war strategies film a tutorial video for Ukrainian volunteers crammed with tips gained from first-hand experience of treating casualties. Using a dummy, members of Syria's "White Helmets" civil defense force demonstrate how to apply bandages…

Russian and Syrian regime warplanes targeted ISIS sites in the Syrian desert, within the administrative regions east of Homs, Raqqa, and Deir Ez-Zor, coinciding with Russian raids in Jabal al-Zawiya, south of Idlib. Regime forces and affiliated militias also targeted the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo, northwest Syria. A source…

Abdel Hamid al-Youssef said 25 members of his family, including his wife and infant twins, were killed when poison gas was dropped on their town in Syria in 2017, in an attack a U.N.-backed inquiry concluded was launched by the Syrian state.

Over half of Idlib province’s four million residents have been displaced by Syria’s civil war.

Smugglers say they have no other option but to engage in the illegal trade to feed their families.

Syrian government forces on Monday shelled a rebel-held village in northwestern Syria, the country’s last major opposition stronghold, killing four students on their way to school, opposition activists said. The shelling targeted the village of Maaret al-Naasan in Idlib province.

Inside the rebel-controlled Idlib province, Syrians speak of their hopes and fears for the Ukraine war. Borzou Daragahi reports from near Saraqib