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Syrian Government Captures Last Stretch of Damascus to Aleppo Highway

Edward Yeranian

   CAIRO - Syrian government forces now control all of the strategic
   Damascus to Aleppo highway, which they had been trying to wrest from
   Turkish-backed rebels for weeks. As Syrian troops continue to push
   ahead inside the rebel-held enclave of Idlib, Turkey sent
   reinforcements to observations posts it occupies, while dispatching its
   foreign minister to Moscow.

   Syrian state TV showed bulldozers and engineering crews clearing rubble
   from the final stretch of the Damascus to Aleppo highway, which
   government forces captured from Turkish-backed rebels in Idlib province
   during the past several days.

   Chief Highway Engineer Mohammed Wazzan said that the highway is the
   main lifeline between Damascus and Aleppo and that government crews
   were working to reopen the last stretch -- which it just captured --
   despite the bad condition of the roadway.
   

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