Sunday, September 30, 2018

Syrian Rebel Faction Rejects Idlib Peace Deal; Says It Denies Rebel-Held Areas,Favors Assad

A Syrian rebel group yesterday rejected a deal between Russia and Turkey to avert a large-scale Syrian government military assault on rebel-held Idlib province, the AFP (Agence France-Presse) website reports today (September 30, 2018).

The deal would make way for a demilitarized zone between rebel and regime-held areas in and around Idlib, Syria's last rebel-held area.

Under the deal, the rebels would withdraw their heavy weaponry from the buffer zone by October 15.

"We are against this deal, which eats into liberated (rebel-held) areas and bails out (Syrian President) Bashar al-Assad," said Jaysh al-Izza, head of the Syrian rebels.

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