An armed group in the Idlib region of northwestern Syria, labelled as "radical" by Moscow, has rejected a Turkish-Russian demilitarisation deal and urged rebels to launch new military operations, the Middle East Eye reported.
"We advise our mujahideen brothers in this decisive and dangerous phase... [to] begin military operations against the enemies of religion to thwart their plans," Huras al-Din said in a statement released on Saturday.
The seal agreed on Monday by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, requires "radical" armed groups to withdraw from a demilitarised zone by 15 October.
While the Huras al-Din faction is not the main such armed group in Idlib, its statement points to objections that may complicate the implementation of the agreement clinched last week by Russia and Turkey.
The most powerful group in the northwest, Tahrir al-Sham, has yet to declare its stance on the deal, the Reuters news agency reported.
Tahrir al-Sham is a coalition of armed groups dominated by the faction formerly known as the al-Nusra Front, which was an official wing of the al-Qaeda network until 2016.
Huras al-Din, which includes foreign fighters, was formed earlier this year by combatants who split from Tahrir al-Sham and the al-Nusra Front when it cut its ties with al-Qaeda.
The group declared the agreement part of a plan "to eliminate the jihadist project" in the Levant.
Source: MEE