Al Assad: Idlib deal 'temporary measure'

Damascus: Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad on Sunday said that a Russia-Turkey deal for the last major rebel bastion of Idlib was a “temporary measure”, state news agency SANA reported.

“The agreement is a temporary measure through which the state has realised many achievements on the ground,” SANA reported the president as saying at a meeting of the central committee of his Baath party.