World update: February 5 2020
Stories from Syria, Sudan, Romania, and more
MIDDLE EAST
SYRIA
This seems very preliminary but Reuters is reporting that the Syrian army has entered the town of Saraqib, located east of Idlib city. I’ve mentioned Saraqib here several times since pro-government forces captured Maarrat al-Numan, and that’s because it sits in an extremely strategic location at the merge between northwestern Syria’s two…