On Friday 31 August, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini announced that the European foreign affairs ministers have called for a military operation in the Syrian province of Idlib to be avoided. Intervention from the Syrian army is reportedly imminent.
"We see the need to prevent and avoid military action in Idlib, which would be a humanitarian catastrophe", Mogherini said at the end of the informal Gymnich meeting in Vienna (see EUROPE...