Turkey failed to deliver what it promised in Idlib “buffer zone agreement” with Russia in Sept. 2018. Islamic terror group HTS took "full administrative control" of Idlib in Jan. 2019 (AFP)

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“Under the September [2018] agreement Turkey expressly agreed to intervene in Idlib to pull HTS and its allies back from the front line and eventually from the whole of the enclave. Russia agreed, in return, to hold its Syrian allies back from attacking the rebel positions in Idlib. Turkey has not done what it promised....Quite the opposite. "[Islamic terror group] HTS took full administrative control in January [2019]." 7/11/2019, “Clashes kill more than 80 fighters in northwest Syria,” AFP, Beirut, via France 24…In early May, Turkey’s non-performance of the agreement prompted Syria and Russia to resume their attempts to reassert Syrian government control over Syria’s national territory in Idlib through military means.”…All “opposition fighters” in Syria are Islamic terrorists from various countries, haven’t the slightest interest in “democracy,” and are massively supported by state sponsor of Islamic terrorism, the US government. Trump recently berated Syria for trying to rescue its Idlib province from Islamic terrorists. Trump regime freely defends and protects world’s largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 911. The nationwide Syria cease fire and elections demanded by US would achieve de facto annexation of Idlib to US Islamic terrorist partners. 
 
[Image: Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, US ally and leader of Islamic Salafist Jihadist terror group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria that controls Idlib province] 

6/5/19, “The Real Plight of Idlib’s Civilians,“ Helena Cobban, lobelog.com 

As to that Russia-Turkey “buffer zone agreement” in Sept. 2018: 

(parag. 3) “One example of the corporate media’s flawed reporting was this May 30 piece in The New York Times in which Carlotta Gall and Huweida Saad wrote at length about the humanitarian crisis in Idlib. But they made zero mention of the domination that HTS and its allies exert over the situation there—including over the activities of all the aid groups in the area. 

This article on Idlib was reported from Ankara, Turkey (by Gall) and Beirut, Lebanon (by Saad.) But it does not explain that the reason why no Western reporters are able to go to Idlib is because of the many killings and other attacks Western reporters have suffered at the hands of HTS and its allies in different parts of Syria. Nor does it explain that, because of their distance from the scene, these reporters were unable to independently verify the accounts of events inside Idlib their informants provided.
 
The overall thrust of Gall and Saad’s at-distance reporting—as with so many similar pieces in the corporate media in recent weeks—was that the Syrian government and its Russian allies were just wantonly attacking civilian facilities in Idlib. It made no mention of Syrian or Russian forces attacking military targets in Idlib or of the casualties the HTS-dominated fighters inside the enclave had inflicted on civilians in neighboring government-held areas. 

The Gall/Saad article does make a short reference, low down in the piece, to the key agreement the Russian and Turkish presidents reached last September [2018] to allow for de-escalation in the Idlib region. (Turkey has considerable control over all the rebels [Islamic terrorists] in Idlib because it commands all the routes through which they can receive aid—or weapons—from the outside world. For its part, Russia is a key military-political ally of the Syrian government.) 

Gall and Saad fail to spell out, however, that under the September [2018] agreement Turkey expressly agreed to intervene in Idlib to pull HTS and its allies back from the front line and eventually from the whole of the enclave. Russia agreed, in return, to hold its Syrian allies back from attacking the rebel positions in Idlib. Turkey has not done what it promised. In early May, Turkey’s non-performance of the agreement prompted Syria and Russia to resume their attempts to reassert Syrian government control over Syria’s national territory in Idlib through military means. 

Turkey is understandably reluctant, Gall and Saad report, to countenance a collapse of the rebel position in Idlib that could send tens of thousands of the province’s current residents fleeing as refugees into Turkish territory. But they don’t spell out that many of those fleeing would almost certainly be HTS fighters—including that large proportion of HTS fighters who aren’t Syrians at all, but foreign takfiri (extremist-jihadi) fighters from a variety of countries, most of whose governments do not want them to return. 

Turkey does, however, bear considerable responsibility for the presence in Syria of the foreign fighters (and in many cases, also their families). From 2011 through late 2014, it actively facilitated the transfer of those takfiris and their weapons and money into Syria, in pursuit of the military campaign that it, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United States, and others launched to topple Bashar al-Assad’s government…. 

Inside Idlib 

Idlib’s present population includes, of course, a strong majority of innocent civilians. But it also includes an estimated 10,000-plus well-armed takfiri fighters, a large portion of whom are not Syrians. [Per BBC, “Idlib is not controlled by a single group, but rather by a number of rival factions commanding up to 70,000 fighters. The dominant force is HTS, which the UN estimates has 10,000 fighters.”] Idlib’s civilians do undoubtedly, along with the fighters, suffer from the military activities of the Syrian government and its allies. But the takfiri fighters, who worry that if they lose in Idlib they’ll have nowhere else to go, also ruthlessly use civilians as hostages…. 

In Idlib, under the agreement Turkey and Russia concluded last September [2018], Turkey is supposed to go into the troubled province and end the takfiris’ control of the area. Until that control ends one way or another, the noncombatants of Idlib will continue to suffer. But it is completely impossible to understand the plight of Idlib’s noncombatants or the broader geopolitics of what is happening in Syria unless journalists and others clearly describe the power dynamics within the rebel-held territory.” (end of article)
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Added: Sept. 2018 BBC article
 

Map from BBC 

9/17/2018, “Syria war: Russia and Turkey to create buffer zone in Idlib,” BBC




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Added: Map of broken up Syria as likely envisioned by US regime including annexation of Idlib in northwest to a new state for US and its Islamic terrorist partners:
 
Image: Map creator suggests tentative name change from Idlib to “Islamic State of Idlib.” Map by International Boulevard, posted May 27, 2017. Idlib, long an Al Qaeda safe haven, is today controlled by vicious Islamic Salafist terror group HTS backed by the US.  “A Map of War Without End,” International Boulevard...Doesn’t Syrian government get a vote? “The Syrian government has not agreed to stand idle over the allies’ [US] disposition of its territory.”… 

US Mass Murder and Starvation machine is entirely to blame for stalling “peace:"

6/27/19, “US says Syria is stalling peace, urges new way to elections,” AP, Edith M. Lederer, United Nations, via abcnews.go.com 

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Added: Without provocation, US flag is planted in sovereign Syrian soil, 12/30/2018





















Image, 12/30/2018, “US flag flies in Syria’s Manbij despite pullout notice,” AFP, Delil Souleiman]…How would US like it if Syria bombed the US and planted its flag on US soil? Thanks to US taxpayers, Syria will be another Libya. US taxpayers will only be free when the US is broken up.







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