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Deadline passes for Syria’s Idlib buffer without jihadists leaving:
monitor
BEIRUT, Oct 15, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A deadline for jihadists to leave a
planned buffer zone around Syria’s last major rebel bastion of Idlib passed
Monday without any sign they had done so, said the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights.
The Britain-based war monitor said there had been no visible jihadist
withdrawal from the buffer by midnight, as a rebel source confirmed the
deadline had passed.
The withdrawal of all jihadists was the second and last condition for the
implementation of a Russian-Turkish deal to stave off a regime assault on the
northwestern province of Idlib.
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