Turkey Is Relocating Military Posts in Syria as Pressure Grows

  • Syrian government forces have closed in on the facilities
  • Ankara committed to preventing fall of Idlib, people say

A Turkish convoy in Urum al-Jawz after vacating the Morek post in Hama's countryside, Oct. 20. 

Photographer: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images

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Turkey has started relocating besieged military outposts in northwestern Syria that are intended to help prevent an all-out assault on one of the war’s last front lines and a new exodus of refugees.