A Syrian army soldier is gunned down in Idlib. Rights groups say after more than four years of civil war, the city has now fallen to Islamist groups including al Qaeda’s Nusra Front.
The video shows Syrian Army getting defeated in Idlib
Amateur video Reuters cannot independently verify appears to show the takeover of Idlib by Islamist insurgents.
More footage purports to show a prison escape from an Idlib jail.
Idlib has faced an influx of displaced people who fled other parts of Syria during the conflict.
It is strategic in location, not far from a highway linking Damascus to Aleppo
The fighting is said to have driven out President Bashar al-Assad’s forces from the city — another chapter in a fight where no one appears to have the upper hand and the bloodshed appears as endless as the war itself.
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