Idlib

The United Nations Security Council failed on Friday to break a deadlock as the final vote is expected on Saturday.

Twice this week a U.N. resolution which would have ensured cross-border cooperation until 2021 failed to pass.

The conflict in northwestern Syria is in danger of spilling over after a Syrian airstrike killed 33 Turkish soldiers on Thursday.

Médecins Sans Frontières said "indiscriminate" assault have left the medical system at a breaking point.

Military conflicts now last for longer and take place in densely populated cities, among a huge variety of state and non-state actors. Idlib is an avatar for the Age of Impunity. The old models no longer apply.

Syrian regime forces are pushing into the northwestern region of Idlib, the last significant area still under rebel control.

Idlib is the last significant rebel-held area in Syria, and since December has come under a renewed offensive by regime troops supported by their Russian and Iranian allies.

The worsening situation at makeshift camps in Idlib province comes as Russian-led airstrikes saw at least 18 people killed on Tuesday.

The unnamed informant's family reportedly suffered under Islamic State rule prompting him to seek revenge, General Mazloum Abdi said.

Regime airstrikes have pounded Syria's Idlib province, with clashes reported between government and rebel ground forces.

About 300 fighters are believed to remain in the devastated Syrian village of Baghouz.

At the same time, Israel "really" hopes no Russians are present at the S-300 air defense sites, as they could be targeted.

Russia's alliance with Turkey is being tested by the ongoing presence of militant groups in Idlib and attacks on Syrian Kurds in the north.

The deals may be in jeopardy after local challenges emerged to two precarious international arrangements designed to avoid new violence.

The battle of Idlib, the rebels' last major bastion, will ultimately be fought as Aleppo was, leading to its recapture by the Assad regime.

The deputy director of Russia's state-run Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies said Moscow would soon be able to track planes, "be it in Israel or Saudi Arabia or even in Europe."

While the president criticized Russia and Iran during the Security Council meeting, he expressed appreciation for the "restraint" both nations have shown in Syria's Idlib province.

A deal struck Monday by Russia and Turkey appears to have stalled any sort of imminent Syrian military attack on Idlib, but tensions remain high in the region.

Syrian air defenses are reportedly engaging missiles over the west coast city of Latakia.

Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to establish a demilitarized zone of 15 to 20 kilometers in Idlib.

"What happened and continues to happen in Raqqa is a humanitarian catastrophe," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

U.S. Special Ops photos featured a French military vehicle in Syria's Deir Ezzor, but they were quickly pulled from social media.

The U.S. has already entered talks with France and the U.K. in what Russia fears could be a new set of strikes against its Syrian ally.

The U.N. has warned an Idlib offensive could cause the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century.

Channels for the Syrian presidency, the Ministry of Defense and the official SANA news agency were all reportedly inaccessible on YouTube.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "has won the war, but he did not win the peace."

Up to 2 million civilians and opposition fighters await a Syrian military assault on the Islamist-held province of Idlib, a move championed by Russia and criticized by the West.

There are increased fears that Russia, Syria and Iran are plotting an assault on the last major rebel stronghold in Syria, Idlib, where many civilians still live.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in July that regaining control of Idlib was a priority. 

After ISIS was mostly defeated in the east, the Syrian military set its sights on rebel-held Idlib, while Turkey targeted U.S.-backed Kurds in Afrin, Aleppo.