What should you know about Idlib?
Idlib is not a headquarters for terrorists, we have always been and still say “Green Idlib”
Idlib is the greenest city in Syria, planted with olives, figs, grapes and all kinds of fruits and vegetables. Although it does not overlook the sea, it produces an abundance of fish in fish farms.
Idlib contains some of the oldest human remains.
One of these monuments is the “Forgotten Cities”, a group of remnants of cities from an ancient civilization, although UNESCO included them on the World Heritage List, but they are still forgotten.
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One of these monuments is also “Harem Castle”, which is a fortified fortress on top of one of the Harem Mountains. Harem is exactly my hometown, in which there are dozens of rivers and springs, and it is sometimes called “Northern Ghouta” similar to Ghouta of Damascus.
Idlib was not an independent province in its history, but was part of Aleppo or Antioch.
It is geographical coincidence that placed Idlib in northwestern Syria, making it the last stronghold of the Syrian opposition and the window to Turkey of areas outside the regime’s control.
Therefore, all important events occur in or near them, and unfortunately, they are exposed to Russian or Syrian air strikes on a daily basis, causing casualties among innocent civilians.
However, living in Idlib is better than living in Damascus, Aleppo or Latakia, where Syria generally suffers from inflation and high prices, where the average monthly income does not exceed $35, but in Idlib and Aleppo countryside (the Olive Branch area) the inflation problem was overcome by using Turkish currency instead of the Syrian currency.
The situation now between the regime-controlled areas and the rebel-controlled areas is similar to the situation between North and South Korea, the same country divided, on both sides of the border, two different ideologies, with the impossibility of crossing between them.
A short while ago, pictures spread to compare the city of Idlib and the city of Damascus at night, as the city of Idlib is lit and everything works in it even the Games City, and all this is mediated by primitive means where there are no electric power plants, and rely entirely on household electricity generators and solar panels And the batteries, while Damascus, the capital, which has a thermal power plant, was dark.
Four million Syrians now live in Idlib, most of whom were displaced from Daraa, Damascus, Homs and Aleppo in settlement deals with the regime, after Russia used the scorched-earth method to expel the residents of those areas from their homes.
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