The slivers that make what is left of Syria’s last rebel-held bastion have gone up in flames in recent days, with government planes destroying acres of farmland.
Satellite photos, released by the Colorado-based Maxar Satellites on Tuesday, showed fires ravaging olive groves and orchards and subsequently destroying vital crops including wheat and barley at the height of harvest seasons in the villages of Kfar Nabudah and Habeet on the periphery of Idlib province.
The Associated Press reported that Kfar Nabudah fell from opposition control and into the hands of Bashar al-Assad's regime Sunday, while the infernos were sparked from an acute bombing campaign nearby. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday marked the heaviest day of air strikes since launching a major campaign against the rebel-held territory almost one month ago.
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Syrian War News Updates -- May 29, 2019
Syrian military 'burning farmland in rebel-held north' -- BBC
Satellite images show fields in northwest Syria on fire -- Reuters
Satellite images show crops on fire in Syria rebel enclave -- AP
Satellite images reveal strikes on Syria's Idlib province -- CNN
Idlib casualties mount as assault leaves aid efforts in the balance -- The Guardian
More than 20 civilians killed in attacks on Syria's northwest -- Al Jazeera
Syrian regime forces 'drop banned cluster bombs' on Idlib and target hospitals -- SKY News
Bombed, beaten and trapped: Syrian journalists swept up in Assad's Idlib assault -- Middle East Eye
Is the Syrian regime about to retake Idlib? -- AFP
