Russia and Turkey have agreed to set up a demilitarised buffer zone to protect civilians in Idlib

Contact line between Syrian government and rebel forces to form basis buffer zone 10-12 miles wide

‘Euphrates

Shield zone’

(Mixed Turkish

and rebel control)

Aleppo

Turkey

Rebel

control

Idlib

Regime

control

Latakia

Idlib

province

20 km

20 miles

‘Euphrates Shield zone’

(Mixed Turkish and

rebel control)

Turkey

Al Dana

Aleppo

Salqin

Rebel

control

Idlib

Contact line between Syrian government and rebel forces to form basis of buffer zone 10-12 miles wide

Latakia

Regime

control

Hamra

Idlib province

20 km

20 miles