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Syria: Assad blames Turkey for fall of city to Islamist insurgents
by Our Foreign Desk
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad alleged yesterday that Turkish military and logistical support was the key reason why insurgents were able to seize the north-western city of Idlib last month.
Idlib, just a short drive from the Turkish border, is only the second provincial capital to fall to Islamist militants in the four-year civil war.
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