Whereas the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011 when Syrians peacefully protested against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad to request basic freedoms; Whereas the regime of Bashar Al-Assad responded to these protests with violence, imprisonment, torture, barrel bombs, and forced displacement; Whereas the civil war and the brutality of the Assad regime has caused nearly 600,000 Syrians to die, 5,000,000 Syrians to flee the country, and 6,000,000 to be internally displaced; Whereas Turkey and Russia concluded the September 2018 Sochi agreement, which included the continuation of a previously negotiated Idlib de-escalation area, which would ensure a ceasefire in Idlib; Whereas Syrian forces, with the assistance of Russia and Iran, launched an offensive in early 2019 to retake the city of Idlib and surrounding areas, violating the Sochi agreement and causing the worst humanitarian conditions since the beginning of the conflict; Whereas civilians, hospitals, and schools have been targeted by the Syrian regime, Russia, and Iran; Whereas the situation has escalated, resulting in an additional 1,000,000 internally displaced persons seeking shelter along the Turkish border during the December 2019 to March 2020 period; Whereas more than 80 percent of the newly displaced are women and children; Whereas Turkey intervened in Idlib to prevent the Assad regime from forcing these displaced persons into Turkey and destroyed many military assets of the Assad regime including aircraft, ground vehicles, and artillery pieces, as well as air defense systems; Whereas, on March 3, 2020, in remarks to media while visiting Turkey, Ambassador James F. Jeffrey, Special Representative for Syria Engagement and Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, said, We will make sure that the equipment is ready. As a NATO partner we share information intelligence . . . and we are going to ensure that they have what they need there.