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This is popular front, a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky details of modern warfare with me

Jake Hanrahan.

This episode we're speaking to Sasha Gosh Simunov.

He's a researcher and the director of an aid organization in Syria.

Sasha is going to be speaking to us about the current situation in Idlib.

Its absolute chaos, the people there, civilians, millions of them, are stuck between the

jihadist of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the prominent force controlling Idlib.

They've also got the Turkish military now who are backing up HTS and of course the Assad

regime are attacking Idlib that's why the clashes are going on

with the help of Russia there are barrel bombs being dropped on civilians

many civilians killed still it's absolute help for them. Support us at Patreon.com

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So firstly I just want to like you know say at the start obviously there's a very you know it's

it's very contentious you know like some people call them rebels some people call them

this personally you know the people in control of Idlib are clearly

jihadist, they're brutal militants, you know, Hayat Taray al-Sham, but then of course,

as we've said before, there are millions of civilians living there just trying to get by getting

absolutely wrecked right now. So you know people are obviously going to be

like this that and the other but let's just let's just say that at the start for me

I consider them you know jihadist I think calling them rebels

is disingenuous personally because you know like I was in jail with FSA man they're

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