Syria's Idleb situation 'will be solved': Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discuss the situation in Idleb province, the last Syrian region outside of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's control and currently dominated by the jihadists of Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). "We have not yet succeeded in implementing all the points we agreed in Sochi but I think this (Idleb's) problem will be solved", said Putin during a press conference. IMAGES of the press conference and SOUNDBITES of Vladimir Putin