Assad's forces expected to move on to Idlib
The Syrian regime appears ready to target militants in Idlib, but the area is also filled with civilians who have fled there to escape the violence in so many other parts of the country.
![AFP_13V6HR TOPSHOT - Syrian onlookers gather around rescue teams clearing the rubble in the morning of April 10, 2018 at the site of an explosion of unknown origin which wrecked a multi-storey building the previous night in the war-battered country's northwestern city of Idlib.
The cause of the explosion in the jihadist-held city, which killed more than a ten people and wounded 80, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, was not immediately clear. / AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KAD](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2018/04/GettyImages-944070588.jpg/GettyImages-944070588.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=jXLzUzLN)
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