BEIRUT: Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah Wednesday welcomed the agreement between Russia and Turkey on the Syrian rebel holdout of Idlib, but said Hezbollah would remain in Syria until further notice.
The deal would take Syria “to a new phase” and there could be “a widespread calm without battles,” but that, based on consultations with the Syrian government, Hezbollah had decided to remain “after the settlement [in Idlib].”
The broad terms of the agreement outlined by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this week will create a force between the two powers that will jointly oversee the creation of a 15-kilometer demilitarized zone between rebel forces and Syrian government forces.