A government helicopter was shot down by Syrian rebels in the northwest, where Syrian troops are fighting the last rebel stronghold. Following this was a government-sanctioned airstrike on a nearby city which reportedly killed 7 people.

Syrian insurgents shot down government helicopter; airstrikes on Idlib followed

President Erdogan after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Turkey and Russia have agreed to Syria ceasefire from midnight. Also Read: Greece blocks 35,000 migrants, plans to deport arrivals after March 1 "At 00.

Turkey, Russia have agreed on Syria ceasefire from midnight: President Erdogan

Government airstrikes have hit hospitals and refugee camps in northwest Syria and killed about 300 civilians as President Bashar al-Assad's forces press an assault against the last rebel stronghold, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Air strikes hit hospitals, camps in northwest Syria; 300 civilian casualties

Dozens of fighters and civilians were killed in Syria's Idlib province as the government pressed a deadly offensive Thursday towards a key town in the country's last rebel bastion.

Several civilians killed as Syrian government presses Idlib offensive

Land-to-land missiles fired by Syrian regime forces killed eight civilians including four children in a school in northwestern Syria on Wednesday, a war monitor said.

Syria: Missiles kill eight in school turned shelter

Defeating jihadists in Idlib is the key to ending Syria's eight-year-old civil war, President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday on his first visit to the embattled northwestern region since 2011.

Battle of Idlib basis for resolving terrorism in Syria: Assad

As US troops began pulling out from northeast Syrian border, the US president in a series of tweets asserted that although US forces were in the process of leaving Syria "but in no way were the Kurds been abandoned".

We may be in process of leaving Syria, but in no way have we abandoned the Kurds: Trump

Russia on Friday announced that Syrian government forces would ceasefire in the northwestern province of Idlib from Saturday morning. An agreement was reached on "a unilateral ceasefire by Syrian government forces in the Idlib de-escalation zone, from 6:00 am on August 31," the Russian Reconciliation Centre for Syria said in a statement.

Russia announces government ceasefire in Syria's Idlib from Saturday

Regime and Russian air strikes killed 43 people in northwest Syria on Monday, most of them in a crowded market, a war monitor said, in the latest violence to plague the opposition bastion.

Regime and Russian air strikes killed 43 people in northwest Syria: War monitor

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