Russia hopes Turkey can stabilize situation in Syria’s Idlib: RIA

A picture taken on Oct. 10, 2017, shows Syrian photographer Ahmed Khatib walking past damaged building in the village of Marayan in the Idlib province. Khatib was a third year civil engineering student at Tishreen University in the coastal city of Latakia when the revolt against Bashar Assad’s rule broke out across the country in March 2011. (AFP/Omar Hajj Kadour)

MOSCOW: Russia hopes that Turkey can stabilize the situation in Syria’s Idlib Province where Moscow believes there is a high threat of attacks by militants, a senior Russian diplomat said on Monday, the RIA news agency reported.
“There is a pretty high level of tension there and there is still a threat of offensives by radical groups deployed there,” the agency cited Alexander Lavrentyev, the head of the Russian delegation at the Astana talks on the Syria crisis, as saying.
“But we hope that our Turkish partners will in the end fulfil their part of the obligations concerning the Idlib de-escalation zone and will stabilize the situation there.”