SYRIAN insurgent groups agreed to observe the Russian and US-backed truce yesterday, but Moscow said terrorists would still be fair game.

Hours before the midnight deadline for the “cessation of hostilities,” the Saudi-based High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said more than 100 groups of the ragtag Free Syrian Army would observe the ceasefire for two weeks.

The HNC insisted that President Bashar al-Assad’s government and its allies must not use the “proposed text to continue the hostile operations against the opposition factions under the excuse of fighting terrorism.”