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Regime forces massed Saturday in northwest Syria, a monitor said, in an apparent bid to press an offensive against jihadists and allied rebels that has heightened tensions with neighbouring Turkey. After eight years of civil war, the jihadist-run region of Idlib on the Turkish border is one of the last to escape the Damascus government’s control. Backed by Russia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have chipped away at the south of the stronghold in recent weeks after months of deadly bombardment.