Syria General /sg/ - Suheil Conqueror of Worlds

New Graham Phillips on Bandera

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the arab was created by allah to bow before the amerigods

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Czenkujem za breadow!

Ruptly
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The legal team of the US appealed to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Thursday, calling on it to reject Iran’s request to move Tehran’s case versus Washington over its frozen assets, to a merits hearing.

Daniel Bethlehem, a British lawyer representing the US, dismissed Iran’s plea to have US allegations of Tehran’s alleged complicity in various terrorist acts against US citizens, addressed in a merits hearing rather than a preliminary hearing.

"Iran’s argument that these issues are all for the merits is simply an attempt to maneuverer these proceedings to a merits hearing," claimed Bethlehem.

Iran is currently facing off with the US at the ICJ over its assets in the States that were frozen over its alleged funding of terror attacks on US citizens. The assets are valued at $1.75 billion (€1.5 billion) and belong to its national bank (Bank Markazi)

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the mutt was created to get fucked by a sandnog

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Pic is just not the same without "Ukranians kiss here for blessings ---->"

top kek

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Assadists can't meme

the guns are too small
does that thing even have a radar?
what is wrong with the shilka?
There arent enough bricks on it
i dont like it
they were better off with putting on a tanks turret on that thing or at least a large minigun, or 2, then fill the turret with ammo

weak arab men cant even handle one american woman, kek

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>In August 2015, Lavrov was caught muttering "fucking morons" (in Russian) during a meeting with Saudi Arabian officials on the dangers of ISIS
How can one man be so based

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Wrong

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you are welcome bro

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since thread died, will dump few left here

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and that's all.

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Right, been redpilling some Euros with another Based(with a capital B) Iraqi in a thread, now i can make a list of Arabic war songs like Houthi songs and some Levant war songs... After this MWO match ends

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This is better

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can someone give me a quick rundown of what's gonna happen next? demilitarized Idlib, what now?

israel will btfo the shit-300 with the superior f35 and turkey will annex idlib while the kurds create and independent state in the northeast, another revolution will start in darra

Please go away

jihadists killing each other in the dmz, putin & assad will walk in when they're all dead

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dunno, we sure can become like our top military analysts and post bunch of shit.
I wait, while terrorists keep chimping out. I guess we will see that predicted gas attack soon, it;s just to calm right now.

Depends on what the animals in the Idlib zoo do

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Stop culturally appropriating spudro...

Dat rape protection plate though...

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>Houthi showed Yemeni-made "Mersad" sea-mine.

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Mashallah may it sink Saudi oil tankers.

One can hope

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fuck, this houthi doku looks rad as hell
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hope someone try to translate it

inshallah

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screencap this

Houthi showed images of aftermath of attack at UAE navy in Al-Mocha port. They claimed it in 2017. almrasel.net/?p=22063

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>screencap this

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Watching the recent BBC documentary A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad I found this election pretty funny. My question is how much of the population in Syria actually voted for the one candidate Bashar in that otherwise sham democratic election?

BASSED AND REDPILLED

Scenes exposed for the first time to target the ship Swift UAE "Sea Almmsjor"

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Nice touch on the nokia boots. 5/5 maistuu salami.

>houthi navi
this guys are total nuts but isn't that some pretty old footage?

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nokian saapaat

Näin on.

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Noise

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Assad entirely BTFO

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Druze Rejal Al-Karama threaten the Syrian regime giving 24 hours to implement their demands

The Druze "dignity men" /Rijal al-Karama movement threatened the Syrian regime to rebel against it unless it provides a solution to the file of the Suweida's women abductees held by the "Islamic State" organization" within one day.

The movement gave the Assad regime only 24 hours to end the issue outstanding months ago, after reports of the organization request for a large ransom for the release of the abductees.

The city of Suweida experienced a security alert and a heavy deployment of the regime forces inside the security zone after targeting the building of the province with machine guns last night.

The people of the province accuse the regime of collusion with the "Islamic State" organization in the surprise attack carried out on several villages, killing hundreds and wounding more than 30 people, mostly women and children.

nedaa-sy.com/en/news/8981

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check the tits on that guy.
i think they need to be spurdo faces

based, second revolution incoming

weren't the druze in suweyda involved in illegel trade with several groups there inclusive isis?

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>Strong duststorm in Deir Ezzor causes low visibility

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It's either assadium mining time, or time for isis to chimp.

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Kurdish forces #YPG captured 3 ISIS terrorist fighters alive in #Syria.

-Canada: Muhammad Ali.
-Germany: Dirk Richard
-Turkish / German: Ergun Orhan

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>convertites
hmmm

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The right one is white and based

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>Putin: Combating int’l terrorism in Syria is a priority

Moscow, SANA-Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed that fighting international terrorism, including in Syria, is an absolute priority.

Putin remarks came during a ceremony on receiving credentials from 23 new ambassadors to Moscow on Thursday.

He pointed out that Moscow is working on solving the crisis in Syria in a way that ensures its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.

Putin hoped that the reconstruction process in Syria will be a joint task for the international community.

He pointed out that the issues related to the recovery of the Syrian economy and infrastructure and the return of millions of displaced persons to their homeland, which will reduce the burden of migration in many European countries, are on the agenda now.

>BTW Putin has Veps roots.
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One can only wonder the what the ulterior motives are.

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>Families of Daraya rehabilitate their houses to return to normal life
Damascus countryside, SANA-With high will and determination, families of Daraya, in Damascus countryside, in cooperation with the local municipality, are going ahead in rehabilitating their houses and shops, overcoming their wounds and suffering caused by terrorism.
Terrorism has struck Daraya, destroyed and sabotaged the families’ properties, so the families are working hard to be able to return to their normal life.

Meanwhile, Directorates of Damascus countryside have worked to maintain the water and electricity networks in the region.

Nearly 100 thousand citizens are expected to return to Daraya successively.

All official establishments and schools in Daraya are ready now to receive the citizens and provide them with different basic needs of life.

neuron != neutron

>Syrian football team beats Bahrain 1-0 in a friendly match

###BAHRAIN BTFO####
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Manama, SANA- Syrian national football team on Thursday beat its Bahraini counterpart 1-0 in a friendly match held in the Bahraini capital of Manama.

The game comes within the team’s preparations ahead of Asian cup finals of UAE 2019.

Omar Souma scored for Syria in the 30th minute of the game.

its not aa like the shilka
its a dedicated ifv
basically a bradley if youre too autistic to know what a ifv is

>800 electrical power transformers arrived in Lattakia as a grant from China
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Lattakia, SANA- Some 800 electrical power transformers with various capacities and 60 kilometer long electric cables arrived in the port of Lattakia on Wednesday as a grant to Syria from the People’s Republic of China.

Head of the Electricity Directorate in Lattakia, Eng. Nazih Maarouf, said that 118 containers arrived in Lattakia port including a range of power transformers of various capacities and distribution transformers, in addition to cables.

He pointed out the grant is well–timed given its importance during the stage of reconstruction and rehabilitation, especially that the electricity sector in Syria suffered significant losses during the past years as a result of terrorist attacks.

He said that this equipment will help enhance the stability of electricity during the coming winter, improve the reality of the electrical network and address the weakness of power in a large number of areas.

For his part, Charge d’affaires at the Chinese Embassy in the Syrian Arab Republic said that the friendship between Syria and China is very solid and deep-rooted; adding that China will exert additional efforts to develop bilateral friendship relations in the future and will do what it takes to help the Syrian people.

I thought Muhammad Ali was American, not Canadian

Neutron stars aren't very bright.
At least in the visible spectrum.

>Zakharova: Moscow verifies reports on terrorists’ complete heavy weapons withdrawal from Idleb
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Moscow, SANA – Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday that Moscow is double-checking reports on the complete withdrawal of heavy weaponry by terrorist groups in Idleb.

“Yesterday, Turkish media reported that the pullout of heavy weapons took place, we are now verifying this information through our experts,” Zakharova said at a press conference, adding that to date, “over 1,000 militants have left the demilitarized zone, and about 100 pieces of equipment have been withdrawn.”

She stressed that according to recently signed Sochi agreement on Idleb, the weaponry to be withdrawn includes tanks, and multiple missile launcher systems, artillery systems and mortars, and all terrorist groups should evacuate the area by the 15th of October.

Meanwhile, Zakharova said that the illegitimate acts of US forces in Syria, particularly in the East of Euphrates, stir mounting concern to Moscow and lead to negative results.

stop posting assharts propaganda

This should be in the devs imo.

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S300 arrives to Syria and all F35 are ordered to remain grounded due to some completely unrelated coincidence.

>Ambassador al-Sabbagh: The OPCW confirmation of Syria’s destruction of its chemical weapons ‘worthy of praise’

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The Hague, SANA- Syria affirmed that the declaration of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that Syria has completed the elimination of its chemical weapons and fulfilled the destruction of its declared production facilities under the complex circumstances it witnesses is a praise-worthy achievement.

The remarks came in a speech delivered by Syria’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Bassam al-Sabbagh at the 89th session of the OPCW Executive Council, which is currently held at its headquarters in The Hague.

“It is disconcerting that some countries, especially the US, are skeptical about this implementation, although it is the only country that is still procrastinating when it comes to compliance with deadlines and destroying its massive chemical arsenal,” al-Sabbagh said.

He expressed regret over not dealing seriously with the information that Syria has repeatedly reported to the Technical Secretariat about chemical weapons and toxic materials ending up in the hands of terrorist organizations.

“With the collapse of the terrorist organizations now in Syria as a result of the progress of the Syrian Arab Army, they are deliberately fleeing to other countries such as the White Helmets or are returning to their countries of origin with expertise in the use of chemical weapons, which necessitates the strengthening of international cooperation to counter chemical terrorist threats to security and stability of the states,” he noted.

The Permanent Representative also reiterated Damascus’s deep concern over the modalities and methodology of the fact-finding team’s work on the allegations of chemical weapons use which had been marred by many shortcomings, including an acute lack of professionalism, adopting a selective approach and double standards, lack of transparency in work and the failure to respect the procedures stated in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and in particular its reliance on information collected from suspicious sources.

He renewed the position of Syria, which rejects the unilateral interpretation of the provisions of the Convention.
The diplomat welcomed the accession of Palestine to the Convention and considered it a step on the way to achieve the universality of the Convention, calling on other countries that have not yet joined to do so and without conditions.

In this regard, al-Sabbagh said that unless Israel joins the Chemical Weapons Convention and all other international agreements related to the disarmament of weapons of mass destruction, the region of the Middle East will not enjoy regional security and peace.

He asserted that Syria is strongly committed to the successful outcome of the 4th Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention to be held before the end of this year, indicating that Syria is actively participating in the work of the preparatory team for this Conference.

The diplomat concluded the statement by stressing that an end to the suffering of the Syrian people is realized only when some known countries cease to carry out their destructive and aggressive policies in Syria and when a group of countries stops imposing unilateral and unfair sanctions against the Syrian people.

no u

>Soprano Isabelle Nicolas releases “Flowers of Peace” video clip as a tribute to Syria
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Damascus, SANA- Soprano Isabelle Nicolas, who lives in Switzerland, has released a video clip of the song “Flowers of Peace” as a token of love for Syria and its people.

Nicolas performed the song for the first time last year at the UN headquarters in Geneva commemorating the 70th anniversary of the UN Singers’ first performance which took place in New York as a message for peace around the world.

The song is composed by Syrian expat Zaher Assaf and the lyrics by fellow Syrian expat Iyad Qahoush.

“Flowers of Peace” means a lot to me…The music by Artist Zaher stirred deep sensations in me that I was on the verge of tears, and after I read a translation of the lyrics written by Dr. Iyad I understood the message that Zaher put into music…It was powerful and full of hope,” Nicolas said in a statement to SANA.

She added that she was also invited to participate in South Korea and Japan with the UN Singers of NYC during their “Peace & Unification Concert Tour” in August and September 2017 in which she performed “Flowers of Peace”.

She hoped that the song will contribute to stability and fostering hope for the children of Syria and to participate in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.

For his part, Assaf said that the song, conveying a message to the world that Syria is a country of peace and the cradle of divine religions, relays a different picture about Syria to the European people as opposed to that of the Western media.

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What's the real story with Khashoggi? Was it KSA or MB?
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news.antiwar.com/2018/10/10/turkey-names-15-saudi-operatives-involved-in-killing-journalist/
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moonofalabama.org/2018/10/us-intelligence-had-a-duty-to-warn-khashoggi-why-didnt-that-happen.html
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>Kurds in Syria say they hold 900 foreign IS fighters
Figure significantly up from last month, as local official accuses Western countries of ‘flouting their responsibility’ to accept their citizens back

QAMISHLI, Syria — Syrian Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State terror group hold around 900 of the organization’s foreign jihadists, a spokesman said on Thursday, a sharp increase from a previous figure.

In lengthy battles against IS in the war-torn country, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have rounded up thousands of alleged IS members, Syrian and otherwise.

QAMISHLI, Syria — Syrian Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State terror group hold around 900 of the organization’s foreign jihadists, a spokesman said on Thursday, a sharp increase from a previous figure.

In lengthy battles against IS in the war-torn country, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have rounded up thousands of alleged IS members, Syrian and otherwise.

“Around 900 IS terrorists are in our jails… from 44 countries,” YPG spokesman Nuri Mahmoud said. That is a sharp rise from the figure of 520, given by another Kurdish official last month.

QAMISHLI, Syria — Syrian Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State terror group hold around 900 of the organization’s foreign jihadists, a spokesman said on Thursday, a sharp increase from a previous figure.

In lengthy battles against IS in the war-torn country, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have rounded up thousands of alleged IS members, Syrian and otherwise.

“Around 900 IS terrorists are in our jails… from 44 countries,” YPG spokesman Nuri Mahmoud said.

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That is a sharp rise from the figure of 520, given by another Kurdish official last month.

“The war is ongoing and until now we are arresting terrorists,” Mahmoud explained, referring to ongoing battles against IS in eastern Syria.

“The numbers have increased over the past months from the battles between our forces and IS,” he said.

Kurdish authorities have said they will not put any foreign jihadists on trial, and repeatedly called on their home countries to take them back.

But Western countries, reeling from IS-claimed terror attacks on their own soil, have been reluctant.

“Most countries have been flouting their responsibility,” Mahmoud said.

According to Kurdish foreign affairs official Abdel Karim Omar, Syrian Kurds also hold 550 women and around 1,200 children from the families of IS members.

Alleged fighters are usually detained in jail, while women and children are held separately in camps.

IS seized large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, declaring a so-called “caliphate” in areas they controlled.

But multiple offensives in both countries have since decimated that proto-state.

In Syria, the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces last month launched a battle to expel the jihadists from their last eastern redoubt of Hajin near the Iraqi border.

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I know it's times of *#&$§!, but it's ok, I wore gloves and washed my hands after

L E T ' S G R O O V E

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>10 senior ISIS financiers arrested in Erbil, Baghdad: Coalition
rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/111020183

10 senior ISIS financiers arrested in Erbil, Baghdad: Coalition
By Rudaw 8 hours ago
Body camera footage of a raid on ISIS suspects released by Kurdistan Region’s counter-terror directorate. Photo: KR counter-terror directorate/screengrab
Body camera footage of a raid on ISIS suspects released by Kurdistan Region’s counter-terror directorate. Photo: KR counter-terror directorate/screengrab
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdish and Iraqi forces, with coalition backing, arrested 10 members of an ISIS financial network in recent operations in Erbil and Baghdad.

"The arrests deal a major blow to ISIS's capacity to threaten and terrorize civilians," said Maj. Gen. Patrick B. Roberson, commander of special operations for the global coalition against ISIS.

The ten arrested were members of the al-Rawi financial network, the coalition stated. Eight of the arrests were previously announced by the Kurdistan Region counter-terror directorate.

Fawaz Muhammad Jubayr al-Rawi was killed by a coalition airstrike in Syria’s al-Boukamal on June 16, 2017.

The US Treasury slapped sanctions on Rawi in December 2016 for providing material and financial support to ISIS.

Rawi, who owned a Hanifa Exchange branch in al-Boukamal, pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2014 and used his extensive financial contacts to help the terror group purchase weapons and ammunition, pay its fighters, and store money.

The recent arrests took place in Baghdad and Erbil between October 7 and 9, the coalition stated.

Kurdistan Region’s counter-terror directorate released video of the arrests of eight ISIS suspects, breaking up a “big network of ISIS financial resources who worked in Iraq and Syria,” overnight on October 6.

"This demonstrates that those who assist in, sponsor, or provide financial, material or technological support to ISIS will face severe consequences,”

baSHART al-ASShurt is a subhuman and will get BTFO by isis

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>Over 36,000 Iraqis apply for cabinet posts in one day

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – So far, 36,006 people have applied for a post in Iraq’s new cabinet, using the website set up by Prime Minister-designate Adil Abdul-Mahdi.

The majority of applicants, 97 percent, are independents, according to figures released by Abdul-Mahdi on Facebook on Wednesday.

The website was opened for applications on Tuesday and will close Thursday at 4 pm.

The most popular ministries are education, followed by health and environment. The ministry of information technology has received the fewest number of applicants, followed by the water ministry.

Some 15 percent of applicants are women.

Abdul-Mahdi has been given a free hand to pick his cabinet and he has taken a step away from the traditional divvying up of power among the establishment Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds. He opened the application process to the public, saying he wanted to prevent a “monopoly of power.”

In addition to the website, he has asked each party to give him five candidates per ministry, but stipulated that he must be free to pick whomever he wants, without intervention from parties.

The UN has said it sees encouraging signs as the government comes into shape, pointing to the appointment of women to two senior parliamentary posts.

Almaz Fadel Kamal is chair of the parliament’s temporary legal committee and Khadija Ali is parliamentary rapporteur.

“Encouraging steps for women in politics, thanks to 1st Deputy Speaker Hassan al-Kaabi's efforts. Hopeful that a woman will be the permanent head of the Legal Committee and more women will assume leadership roles in other key parliamentary committees,” the UN mission in Iraq (UNAMI) tweeted on Wednesday.

UNAMI is backing a joint Canada-World Bank venture to empower Iraqi women economically and politically.

From the four Kurdistan Region provinces, 448 people have applied for cabinet posts.

Based

this

>Syria buffer free of heavy arms as jihadists face deadline
rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/10102018

BEIRUT - A planned buffer zone in northwest Syria has been cleared of heavy armaments, Turkey said Wednesday, as a new deadline loomed for the tougher task of Ankara convincing jihadists to pull out.

The demilitarised zone ringing the Idlib region is the result of a deal reached last month between rebel backer Turkey and government ally Russia to stave off a regime assault on Syria's last major rebel stronghold.

The accord called for a complete withdrawal of all heavy weapons from the planned buffer by Wednesday, and rebels and jihadists appeared to have met that deadline.

"The pullout of heavy weapons from the de-militarised zone was completed on October 10," the Turkish defence ministry said.

Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said no heavy weapons were visible in the buffer already from Tuesday.

He was unable to confirm any pullout from a part of the planned zone that falls inside Latakia province but said any such weaponry was not out in the open.

"They could have been moved to trenches or secret locations," he said.

The Turkey-backed National Liberation Front (NLF) rebel alliance said it had pulled out all heavy arms by Monday, and the Observatory said jihadists quietly followed suit.

Despite the relatively speedy implementation of the accord's first deadline, observers say a thornier task lies ahead.

Under the deal, the zone must be free by October 15 of all jihadists, including those of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the region's dominant force led by former Al-Qaeda fighters.

With five days to go, HTS and other jihadist fighters remained inside the planned buffer area and showed no sign of leaving.
- 'Harder point' -

HTS, which controls more than two-thirds of the planned zone, has not officially responded to the Turkey-Russia deal.