British newspaper: Russian-Turkish agreement on Idlib will not last long

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In an article entitled "The West is forced Beshar al-Assad to rush into Putin's lap," the writer of the British newspaper, Patrick Cobren, said that experts and analysts doubt the agreement reached between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recap Tayyip Erdogan to prevent an offensive by the troops of Syrian regime against terrorist and armed gangs in Idlib.

Cobren believes that the experts' doubts are logical because if the agreement is implemented, the armed gangs will lose their full strength. A demilitarized zone will be created under Russia and Turkey. The establishment of this zone will result in a significant loss in the areas under their control. The armed gangs will also lose control of the highways that pass through Idlib and link them to the cities of Aleppo, Latakia and Hama, which are controlled by the regime's forces ,according to BBC.

The writer says that the agreement may be difficult to implement because of the different armed gangs and their objectives, "what, for example, would make a group that follows al-Qaeda ideology like Hiet Tahrir al-Sham give up and abandon the weapons ."

He notes that the Syrian regime which said it would abide by the agreement, would not abide by it for a long time, because it might find it more appropriate to gradually control Idlib.

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