A hundred days after the start of their military offensive, Damascus and Moscow took over about half of the rebel Idlib province, the last in northwestern Syria still in the hands of opponents of Bashar al-Assad. But this offensive with incessant bombardment - more than 400 civilian deaths - has displaced one million people to the Turkish border. Worried about new Syrian refugees arriving in its territory, which already hosts more than 3.6 million, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent ten thousand soldiers and military equipment to support the rebels that Ankara supports, including a good tens of thousands of foreign jihadists - including more than a hundred French.
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This reinforcement paid off: eight days ago, Saraqeb, a strategic city on the Aleppo-Damascus highway, fell back into the hands of the pro-Turks. But a few hours later, the Russian air force killed 34 Turkish soldiers in a bombardment.
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