idlib: Here's a review of what's been happening in Idlib and five other sieges and humanitarian crises that have shaped events in Syria since 2011, according to The Guardian. Idlib province Assad's forces, backed by Russia and Iran, have reclaimed nearly all parts of rebel-held Syria The last stronghold is Idlib province, home to 3 million people and largely controlled, until now, by the al-Qaeda-linked rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. It is tragedy on top of tragedy So many Syrians have been killed, injured, displaced and disappeared that it can be hard to keep track of the timeline. The Syrian Army's artillery and Russian missiles raining down around Idlib have sent people fleeing in what aid groups say could become the worst humanitarian crisis yet in Syria's civil war, now in its ninth year. In recent weeks, Syrian forces have retaken several villages and now have their eye on a strategic highway and the nearby town of Maarat al-Numan, the largest in Idlib's southern countryside. People are desperate to find food, shelter and medical care all which they already were struggling to find Leading up to this escalation, Syrian forces had been targeting Idlib province for months, displacing around 500,000 civilians, many of whom had already been displaced from homes elsewhere in Syria.
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