The long and bitter Syrian civil war has shifted into an ugly new stage: the brutal repression of the remaining rebel-controlled areas in Syria’s northwestern provinces of Idlib and neighboring Aleppo. About four million people huddle in desperate conditions as Syrian government forces and their Russian allies prepare the final, bloody push.
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An injured elderly man waits to be transported for treatment following an air strike by pro-Syrian regime forces in the town Maarrat Misrin in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, on Feb. 25, 2020.
