Syria:

Safe Corridor Opened in Eastern Idlib for Civilians to Enter Gov't-Held Regions

TEHRAN (defapress)- Tens of civilians have started leaving terrorist-held regions in Eastern Idlib for regions that are under the Syrian Army's control via a newly-set up humanitarian corridor.

News ID: 69044

Date: 06 March 2018 - 15:00

The Arabic-language al-Watan daily reported on Tuesday that a safe corridor has been recently set up by the government forces under the supervision of the Russian and Turkish sides in Tal al-Sultan region in Eastern Idlib to pave the ground for the civilians to exit terrorist-held regions in Northwestern Syria.

Al-Watan went on to say that the newly-set up safe corridor is supposed to be used by those displaced civilians that had left their villages and settlements in Southern Aleppo for the regions that are under the control of the Al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at or the Levant Liberation Board) in Idlib province.

It added that tens of civilians have used the newly-established corridor to reach army-controlled regions within the framework of the de-escalation zone agreement concluded in Astana.

Heavy infighting among terrorist groups in Aleppo and Idlib provinces has displaces a large number of civilians in Northwestern Syria.

Field sources reported on Sunday that Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) pulled its gunmen back from more regions after a fresh round of clashes with Syria's Tahrir Front in Southern Idlib.

The sources said that Syria's Tahrir Front stormed the positions of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at in Southern Idlib and captured the villages of Arnaba, Ein Larouz, al-Mouzeh, Asfahoun, al-Fatireh, Tal Asfahoun, Kafr Nubl, Hazarin and Kafr Awin.

The sources further added that heavy fighting is underway between the two rival terrorist groups near the town of Dar al-Izzah.