Turkey will send more troops into Syria's Idlib province after striking a deal with Russia that has averted an imminent government offensive and delighted rebels who said it kept the area out of President Bashar al-Assad's hands, the Reuters website reports today (September 19, 2018).
The deal unveiled on September 17 by Russian President Vladimir Putin -- Assad's most powerful ally -- and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will create a demilitarized zone from which "radical" rebels must withdraw by the middle of next month.
Damascus also welcomed the agreement, but vowed to continue its efforts to recover "every inch" of Syria, now in its seventh year of a brutal civil war.
The agreement halted a threatened Syrian government offensive on Syria's last rebel-controlled province -- home to some three million people.
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