In this file picture, foreign-sponsored militants attend a mock battle in anticipation of an attack by Syrian government forces in Idlib province and the surrounding countryside, during a parade of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorists in the countryside of the northern Idlib province...

The file photo shows members of the White Helmets group in Aleppo, northern Syria...

Russian and Turkish military armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers (APCs) drive together in a joint patrol along the M4 highway, which links the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Latakia, near Ariha in Syria’s militant-held northwestern Idlib province, on July 7, 2020...

Turkish army troops, wearing protective masks against the new coronavirus, take position on the M4 Highway in the northwestern Syrian Idlib Province on April 13, 2020...

Turkish-backed militants block parts of the M4 highway in Idlib...

Russian and Turkish troops coordinate their joint patrol in Syria’s Idlib...

Syrian army soldiers gather with vehicles in a square in the town of Saraqib in the northwestern Idlib Province on March 6, 2020, as government forces wrested control over it...

A Syrian army soldier stands overlooking a motorway in the town of Saraqib in the northwestern Idlib Province on March 6, 2020, as government forces assumed control over it...

Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari (file photo) Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari says the Damascus government and the Syrian nation will not allow Turkey to split and annex any part of the Arab country’s embattled northwestern province of Idlib...

Syrian Army soldiers advance in Tall Sultan town towards Saraqeb city, in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, on February 5, 2020...

Refugees walk to Turkey’s Pazarkule border crossing with Greece’s Kastanies, in Pazarkule, on February 28, 2020...

A Turkish military convoy of tanks and armored vehicles pass through the Syrian town of Dana, east of the Turkish-Syrian border in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, February 2, 2020...

Turkish soldiers deploy at a position near the village of al-Nayrab, situated about 14 kilometers southeast of the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria, on February 20, 2020...

A Turkish soldier and tank near Idlib’s Neirab (Photo by Middle East Eye) Russia says Turkey has sent large amounts of ammunition and armored vehicles into Syria’s Idlib province, apparently in preparation for its anticipated large-scale operation in the Arab country...

Syrians look at Turkish troops in the town of Turmanin in Syria’s Idlib Province on February 15, 2020...