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

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.