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Syria's Assad says Idlib deal 'temporary measure': state media

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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad 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 Sunday reported the president as saying at a meeting of the central committee of his Baath party.

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First Published: Oct 08 2018 | 6:00 AM IST

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