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Syrian and Russian warplanes have been escalating airstrikes on the last remaining rebel redoubt in northern Syria. The air raids are as much a message to Turkey as to die-hard rebels and jihadists in the province of Idlib, say analysts.

Russia wants Turkey to do more to remove from the province jihadists fighters once affiliated with al-Qaida, they say.

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