The Syrian tyrant and the Russian guarantor escalated their bombardments on the liberated cities and towns of northern Syria; they used rocket launchers and artillery shells, as well as warplanes that had been absent for months from the skies of liberated areas.

Barely a year passes without seeing new factional fighting; every time the forbidden blood is shed and cities and villages are violated without the factions bat an eyelid as if they went out for revolution to fight each other and not to overthrow the tyrant of Ash-Sham, whose areas became safe from the factions’ "revolution" more than ever, and overthrowing him is no longer a priority for those leaders who…

The repressive and authoritarian regimes, especially the regime of repression and criminality in Ash-Sham, have been robbing the will of the Ummah, violating its sanctities, and targeting it with repressive intelligence apparatuses, instilling in them fear and terror, until people did not dare to talk to their closest relatives about public affairs.

On Saturday 27/10/2018, a quartet summit was held in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss the Syrian dossier, attended by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macaron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel; and the final communique of the summit stressed the need for a political solution for what they called the Syrian crisis, and a permanent ceasefire in Idlib.