Turkey to reinforce Idlib region after Russia deal -foreign minister

Turkey will reinforce troop deployments in Idlib after agreeing a demilitarised zone which it will jointly patrol with Russia, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday.

"Russia and Turkey will carry out joint, coordinated patrols here, around the Idlib border. We will need to make additional troop deployments here," Cavusoglu told a news conference.

He said the M4 and M5 highways, which run east to west and north to south through the Idlib region, linking the government-held city of Aleppo with Damascus and the Mediterranean coast, would be open to traffic by the end of the year.