Top UN Official Cautiously Optimistic Idlib Will Remain Quiet

A top U.N. humanitarian official calls himself cautiously optimistic that the quiet in Syria's Idlib province will continue to hold. "The worst-case scenario is still horrific war across enormous areas," Jan Egeland said in Geneva on Thursday. "But the way that Russia and Turkey tell us of their plans ... makes me a cautious optimist. I don't see the big war coming any time soon to Idlib." Both Russia — which backs the Syrian regime — and Turkey — which...

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