Turkey warns Damascus 'not to play with fire'

MAARET AL-NOMAN:  Jihadists and allied rebels withdrew from a key area of northwestern Syria on Tuesday, a war monitor said, as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces pressed an offensive against the Jihadist-run Idlib region.

Turkey warned Damascus "not to play with fire" a day after a Syrian regime air strike sought to deter a new Turkish military convoy from entering the area.

After eight years of civil war, the Idlib region on the border with Turkey is the last major stronghold of opposition to Assad’s Russia-backed government.