Turkey rejects documents and maps on Syria proposed by Russia as talks over Idlib conclude without a breakthrough
Internally displaced children sit at a makeshift camp in Qatmah village, in northwest Azaz, Syria, February 17, 2020.
"Civilians fleeing the fighting are being squeezed into areas without safe shelter that are shrinking in size by the hour. And still, they are bombed. They simply have nowhere to go," UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said in a statement."How can anyone justify carrying out such indiscriminate and inhumane attacks?" Bachelet said.
Appearing on national TV on Monday, Assad said the rapid regime military gains presaged the eventual defeat of the nine-year-old insurgency against him although it could still take time. Kalin said changing the location of Turkey's military observation posts in Idlib is "out of question", adding that Ankara will continue military support and dispatches to safeguard Idlib and the civilians.
A UN spokesman, David Swanson, said close to 900,000 people have fled conflict zones in Idlib province and western Aleppo since December, more than 80 percent women and children. The M5 highway linking Damascus to Aleppo, the focus of recent fighting, was reopened to civilian traffic on Tuesday after regime forces recaptured it last week, the Syrian Observatory war monitor reported.
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