Foreig­n terror­ists face a fight to the last hold onto IdlibBEIRUT: Hailing from far and wide, they flocked to Syria to wage “holy war”. Now foreign terrorists face a fight to the last to hold onto Idlib, their final bastion. Since 2015, Idlib has been home to a complex array of anti-government forces: militants and terrorists with ties to al Qaeda. A major obstacle to a substantive agreement, observers say, is the fate of terrorists in the province, including foreign militants. Chased out of their own homelands and targeted in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, experienced foreign terrorists embraced Syria’s war as their own starting around 2013, two years into the conflict.

Source: The Express Tribune September 10, 2018 08:15 UTC