Northern Syria Deserted Thanks To Scorched Earth Campaign -- The Telegraph
A province in northern Syria has been almost entirely turned into a ghost town after a scorched-earth campaign by government forces, a diplomatic mission to the area has found.
Western envoys and United Nations officials taken on a government tour of Idlib, a region close to the Turkish border, reported seeing deserted villages and mile after mile of abandoned fields.
The mission provided the first independent glimpse into the scale of the military operation mounted by President Bashar al-Assad's feared brother Maher against opponents of the regime.
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