By them as human shields in such areas as, The decision of Syrian Army to allow encircled militants to withdraw towards Idlib enabled the rescue of thousands of civilians. ... August 2019 advance of Syrian Army Hama and southern Idlib led to the liberation of large chunk..…

Even more, these same States deny us the right to defend our people against terrorists, which they consider ‘freedom fighters’ or ‘Syrian armed opposition’, as some like to call them.”  . ... Al-Moualem called Idlib the most recent example of this situation, stating..…