{"id":30780,"date":"2019-01-27T13:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T13:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30780"},"modified":"2019-01-27T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T13:23:01","slug":"russia-deal-with-turkey-on-syrias-idlib-not-fully-implemented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30780","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Deal with Turkey on Syria&#8217;s Idlib not fully implemented"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"75.7971014493\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">An agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/turkey.html\">Turkey<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/syria.html\">Syria<\/a>&#8216;s Idlib province has not been fully implemented, raising concerns in Moscow and Damascus, the Interfax news agency quoted a Kremlin spokesperson as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Moscow and Ankara have tried to create a de-escalation zone in the region last year, where acts of aggression are expressly prohibited in order to allow the return of thousands of displaced Syrians to their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Last week, Turkish President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/recep-tayyip-erdogan.html\">Tayyip Recep Erdogan<\/a> went to Moscow to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/russia-turkey-agree-steps-stabalise-syria-idlib-190123184024543.html\">discuss<\/a> with his Russian counterpart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/vladimir-putin.html\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> the steps needed to stabilise the situation in Idlib.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/russia.html\">Russia<\/a> said that the situation there was rapidly deteriorating and that it was almost under the full control of Hay&#8217;et Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) &#8211; a rebel group that was previously linked to al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>In September last year, Turkey pledged to disarm and remove HTS fighters in Idlib when a deal was signed between Turkey and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The deal succeeded in preventing a Russia-backed Syrian government offensive from launching in Idlib which is home to nearly three million people, including many internally displaced persons (IDPs).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement with Turkey on Syria&#8217;s Idlib province has not been fully implemented, raising concerns in Moscow and Damascus, the Interfax news agency quoted a Kremlin spokesperson as saying. Moscow and Ankara have tried to create a de-escalation zone in the region last year, where acts of aggression are expressly prohibited in order to allow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}