Baladi News – (Mona Ali)
The repeated events in Idlib revealed international and regional conspiracies to abandon the province to its fate, including nearly two million indigenous and displaced residents. They also exposed the disastrously fragile opposition's political and religious institutions, from the national coalition to the interim government.
Ahrar al-Sham and Tahrir al-Sham, the two military powers controlling Idlib, expanded their infighting in the absence of the oppositions' institutions that do not have a military arm.
Despite the fact that al-Nusra Front, the backbone of Tahrir al-Sham, was classified as a terrorist group, the international coalition left it untouched, and so did Russia and Assad's regime, although the area was covered by the de-escalation agreement that provides for fighting terrorist organizations.
In Syria, the worst has not happened yet, and what Aleppo and Homs witnessed will be nothing compared to what Idlib will witness according to a Washington Post report.
It seems that the factions, particularly Tahrir al-Sham, are going ahead in its attempts to impose its control, disregarding the civilian populations that held demonstrations on Wednesday in refusal of the aggressions of Tahrir al-Sham. The demonstrators in Saraqeb were shot at by the group killing the activist Musab al-Izzo and wounding others.
Amid the deafening silence about the bloody incidents in Idlib by the states involved in the Syrian case, religious bodies of the opposition, as well as independent preachers, offered temporary solutions that had been proven unsuccessful over the past years.