World update: April 25 2019

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Al-Monitor’s Semih Idiz writes that Turkey, which is charged with excising Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from Idlib province in order to forestall a Syrian-Russian offensive there, may be trying to rehabilitate the former al-Qaeda affiliate instead:

Turkey was tasked with neutralizing HTS under the Sochi agreement but has been reluctant to take on…

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