Turkey to meet Russian military committee for Syria

ANKARA

Turkey will host Tuesday a Russian military committee to discuss the cease-fire agreement reached on Syria's restive Idlib province, the country's Defense Ministry said.

“The meeting, which will be held with the Russian Military Committee within the framework of the agreement reached in Moscow on March 5, 2020, will start on Tuesday, March 10 in Ankara,” the ministry said in a tweet on Monday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to a new cease-fire for Idlib effective as of midnight on March 5.

Under the agreement, all military activities are to end in