Relative calm in Idlib on third day of ceasefire
Powerful rebel group Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham says it will not withdraw 20km – although it accepts ceasefire.
There has been relative calm in northwest Syria on the third day of a conditional ceasefire.
It comes after a truce was brokered during peace talks in Kazakhstan, following weeks of air strikes and bloodshed in Idlib province, the last remaining rebel-held area.
But the most powerful rebel group Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham says it does not want to withdraw 20 kilometres, although it accepts the ceasefire.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Gaziantep on the Turkey-Syria border.
Published On 4 Aug 2019