Sense of an ending for Syria's war on Idlib front line
[ad_1] Image copyright Cara Swift Image caption Half of Syria's pre-war population - more than 12 million people - have lost their homes Maybe Idlib is where the war ends. Or perhaps it is where it reshapes itself to create a new agony for the Syrian people. I travelled along the regime side of the front line around Idlib. It is a city and most of a province. Three million civilians and perhaps 90,000 rebel fighters are inside its perimeter. It is estimated that they include a hard core of up to 20,000 jihadist extremists. The war is in its eighth year. The regime argues that it was always a foreign conspiracy designed to destroy Syria. But early in the war I crossed into rebel-held areas to talk to protesters who chanted about freedom, who said they wanted the fall of the regime but not the destruction of their...