The High Cost of Failure in Idlib

Expand Peoples ride past buildings destroyed during fighting in the northern town of Ariha, in Idlib province, Syria, September 20, 2018. © 2019 Ugur Can/DHA via AP, File The hum of an aircraft hovering above. An explosion. Children crying in terror as their parents pick them up and flee. Blood, dust, and destruction everywhere. It is an all too familiar sequence of events through the Syrian conflict, in Aleppo, Ghouta, and now, Idlib. Despite widespread condemnation of this familiar tragedy, not enough has been done to protect civilians in Syria. On April 26, the Syrian-Russian military alliance…

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