MOSCOW. Sept 7 (Interfax) - Saying that the Syrian government is trying to seize Idlib province is incorrect; this is an anti-terrorist operation, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
"The wording, that the Syrian government wants to seize Idlib, actually, we are talking about Syrian territory as such, [you don't] 'seize' something on your own territory, but it is possible to continue the counterterrorist operation, it is these goals that were declared by Damascus," Zakharova said at a briefing on Friday.