Despite Damascus' demands, Turkish occupation pines new point near M4

 The Syrian Observatory said that the Turkish occupation forces established a new military point in the town of Afes near the city of Saraqib and the M4 highway, east of Idlib, where the new point contains two tanks, 4 personnel carriers, 3 armored vehicles and nearly 50 soldiers.

 According to Observatory, this point came after the messages sent by Russia to Turkey previously to evacuate the Turkish points in the area between the cities of Saraqib and Idlib, adjacent to the M4 highway, east of Idlib.

 This coincides with the arrival of military conveys of the Damascus government forces to the city of Saraqib, after which the Turkish occupation reinforced with tanks and armored vehicles on the entire contact lines surrounding the city of Saraqib, Jabal al-Zawiya and the western countryside of Aleppo and raising the full readiness of the soldiers with their equipment.

 SOHR monitored today, Sunday, the entry of a new convoy of the Turkish occupation forces into the so-called de-escalation zone, where more than 100 vehicles, including armored vehicles, personnel carriers, and trucks loaded with military and logistical equipment entered the Kafr Losin border crossing with Iskenderun, north of Idlib, and headed  Towards the military points of the occupation in the southern sector of Idlib countryside.

 These developments indicate that Russia and Turkey failed during the recent Sochi talks to resolve the Idlib complex, especially the opening of the M4 international road.

 After these talks, Russia and Damascus demanded that Turkey withdraw from Idlib. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Damascus, Faisal Miqdad, said today that it is time for Turkey to leave the northwest of Syria and did not talk about Turkey's occupation of other areas in the northeast of Syria.

 Despite the mutual reinforcements and escalation between the two parties, it is not expected that matters will reach a direct confrontation. Rather, it is possible that this escalation will be the beginning of a future understanding between the two parties, and this is what Miqdad said during his speech today, in which he said, “It is time for Turkey to withdraw from the north.”  the western side of Syria,” and that “it would allow for a solution that guarantees normal relations between Syria and Turkey after the end of this occupation.”

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