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Turkey, Russia Fear Humanitarian Disaster in Syria's Idlib

Associated Press

   A Turkish delegation will travel to Russia Monday to discuss the
   situation in Syria's Idlib province amid mounting fears of a
   humanitarian disaster there, Turkey's foreign minister said.

   Hundreds of thousands of civilians in Idlib province are scrambling to
   escape a widening, multifront offensive by Syrian President Bashar
   Assad's forces.

   "What matters is today around 1 million people from Idlib have been
   moving towards our border," Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
   said in a statement Saturday after a phone call with U.S. President
   Donald Trump in which they discussed Syria and other topics. "We are
   already hosting 3.5-4 million people. Unfortunately we are not in a
   position of accepting this another 1 million."

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