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Kremlin says onus is on Turkey to rein in militants in Syria's Idlib

Kremlin says onus is on Turkey to rein in militants in Syria's Idlib

Dmitry Peskov

TheKremlinsaid on Friday that it wasTurkey's responsibility to stopmilitantsinSyria'sIdlibprovince from firing on civilian and Russian targets.

Kremlinspokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comments when asked about a suggestion from Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to implement a ceasefire inIdlib.

A Russian-backed Syrian government offensive in the rebel-held northwest, the most serious escalation of the war between President Bashar al-Assad and his enemies since last summer, has uprooted around 250,000 people in the territory, the last significant rebel stronghold.

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