Escalation and mobilization of Turkish forces in Syria’s Idlib

IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – Turkish forces bombed the Saraqeb area in southeast Idlib on Thursday amid Turkish mobilization in Nabi Younes Hill and bombardment by Syrian government forces on towns and villages in the southern Idlib countryside.

Turkish artillery shelled parts of Saraqeb, a Syrian government-held area which was recently reinforced.

 Saraqeb is a city in northwestern Syria, located east of Idlib in the Idlib Governorate. During the course of the Syrian Civil War, the city fell into the hands of rebel forces in 2012 and was recaptured by the Syrian Army in 2020.

“The Turkish forces mobilized in its positions in Nabi Younes Hill after receiving information confirming the possibility of targeting of the area by Russian forces,” a local military source told North Press.

Syrian Government artillery targeted villages in Zawiya Mountain south of Idlib on Thursday.

On Tuesday, Russian warplanes targeted several locations in the villages of Barah, Sargila, and other areas in the villages of Zawiya Mountain in the southern countryside of Idlib.

It also shelled the hills of al-Kabinah and Douir al-Akrad in the northern countryside of Latakia, near the western countryside of Idlib, in response to a VBIED, which wounded three Russian soldiers and destroyed four armored vehicles, targeting a Russian-Turkish military patrol in the southern countryside of Idlib.