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A new ceasefire in the Greater Idlib region in northwest Syria is set to start just after midnight on Sunday, January 12, the Turkish National Defense Ministry announced.
In a statement released on January 10, the ministry said that the ceasefire will take effect in less than 30 hours, at 0.01 Syria time (2101GMT) on January 12, right after midnight.
“Turkey and the Russian Federation have agreed on the implementation of the cease-fire within the Idlib de-escalation zone, stopping the air/ground attacks, preventing loss of life and new migratory flows with the purpose of contributing to the normalization of life,” the ministry’s statement reads, according to the Anadolu Agency.
The Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria announced the surprise ceasefire a day earlier. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was reportedly preparing to resume ground operations in Greater Idlib when the ceasefire was announced.
Earlier today, the SAA carried out a series of artillery and aerial strikes on the southeastern and eastern parts of Greater Idlib.
A source in the SAA told South Front that the strikes targeted terrorists preparing to launch a new attack on military positions in the southeastern Idlib countryside. The strikes successfully foiled the terrorists’ plans.
Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies have not commented on the new ceasefire, so far. Last year, terrorist groups sabotaged many similar agreements, forcing the SAA to resume operations in Greater Idlib. This will likely happen once again.
Remember all Putin’s cease fire in Chechnya.
You are not Italian NATO pig. You are NATO pig from France – Sunni Muslim, Arab of Tunisian or Moroccan origin. They are by far the worst among all Arabs of Maghreb in the percentage of the terrorists in Syria!! That’s why you hate Russia so much.
But you can only kiss Russian arse if they let you to do it…
Jihadi Chechnya can suck my dick, same as Idlib Jihadis. Ceasefire must help humans with at least a bit of culture and civilization left in them, and not Jihadi terrorists. So be happy, in Syria Putins ceasefire help your Jihadi umma friends.
Russia Declares Ceasefire Deal With Turkey In Idlib To Stem Refugee Tide https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/idlibborder.jpg?itok=NTjqdeps https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-declares-ceasefire-deal-turkey-idlib-stem-refugee-tide
Strangely enough, apart from SF, RT and the likes, ZH is overall quite reliable. Thanks for the link.
And the SAA desperately want to exacerbate the refugee problem, they want that tiny trickle to turn into a massive flood, but the Turks don’t want that at all, and neither do you, you paid for Turkish troll. All these people are most likely the very people calling for the ousting of Assad, they probably have their family members fighting for the terrorist and opposition forces, and they also probably want to enforce their Islamic ideals on everyone else whether they like it or not. 99% of the people in this photo are the enemy, how many families can you see in the photo, none, how many children do you see, none, and that’s because they’re probably all terrorists. Where are all the mummies and daddies with 3 or 4 kids in tow, the real refugees, I can’t see them in the photo. Turkish propaganda is by far the worst of any, it uses halfwits like you to spin the truth, and it supplies photo’s like this to garnish sympathy, so where are all the families Erdogan’s saving from Assad, point them out for me, I can only see terrorists in this photo.
WTF did you edit your comment for, you were saying these people had to be helped, why did you edit that out of your comment, did you read my reply did you, it’s too late, heaps of people probably saw what you wrote, you’re just a Erdogan sympathizer, a PAID FOR TURKISH TROLL.
Willing Conscience Turd the Syrian DESERTER I have copy pasted this news and I don’t know what are you talking about? I edit my comments because they are always full of grammar and spelling mistakes I do NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU any more so back off or I will block you!
You LIAR, prior to your edit you were calling for a ceasefire to protect the people in the photo, calling them refugees, do they really look like refugees to you. And you blocked me last week and you’ll block me again next week, when I find something you’ve said that I don’t like and call you out for it, you obnoxious Turkish paid for troll.
I am Slavic Orthodox Christian, the last kind of person on the planet to like Turks you idiot. They are our traditional enemy. I have no clue what are you talking about the “comment”…I have wrote so many that I don’t remember many of them any longer. Think what you want I don’t care.
The SAA should prepare for an attack. It’s what usually happens when the Turkish admin call for a ceasefire.
Maybe Erdogan needs to extract more terrorists from Idlib and doesn’t want the merchandise spoiled before it gets there.
these ceasefires are nothing but a joke, there is nobody enforcing them, any side can start shooting again and the only thing that may happen is the other side shoots back
Why ? To cheat as Erdo always does. To enforce the jihadists to supply them and build fortifications? Kill the beasterds and do it now.