Idlib could be trump card or time bomb for Turkey
Turkey may be pushing its luck by expanding its operational field into Latakia province, provoking skirmishes with the Syrian army.
Dangerous confrontations are cropping up between Turkish troops and those of the Syrian regime.
As part of an agreement involving the ongoing Syrian peace talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, Turkey recently completed its 12th and last military observation post in Idlib — the northwestern Syrian province that has become a “jihadi reserve.” With that done, and with regime pressure mounting on Idlib, Turkish troops and their rebel allies on May 27 ventured into the adjacent Jabal al-Akrad region in the province of Latakia.
