`We have nothing left`: displaced Syrians wait out war in Idlib
(The Guardian Turkey)

With the closed Turkish border behind them and Russian-backed forces at the horizon, Syrians have nowhere left to runHemmed against a border wall in Somme-like mud and misery, more than 1 million Syrians are awaiting their fate. Nearby, Iranian-backed militias and what remains of the national army are advancing towards them, as Russian jets pick them off in the crowded fields and ruined towns that are all that is left of opposition-held Syria.Convoys of the Turkish military, a protector of the displaced that have made it to the province over the last eight years, pass regularly along roads teeming with clapped out cars full of families and remnants of their belongings. Women and children beg them to stop, but they continue on to battlefronts miles from the panic and confusion, their attention diverted from helping the destitute to shaping the final months of the war in Ankara´s interests. Aid workers, who say things have never been worse in Syria, do what they can among scenes they describe as overwhelming and impossible. Related: Syria: the fight for Idlib Continue reading...