Syrian rebels in the northern Damascus district of Barzeh have agreed a local ceasefire with the regime after nearly a year of fighting and bombardment, activists said, according to Al Jazeera.
The opposition local council said
that after negotiations through mediators from the neighbourhood, the regime
and the Free Syrian Army had agreed "the withdrawal of Assad's army from
all of Barzeh, and the cleaning of the streets [of abandoned corpses], in
preparation for the road to be opened" by the rebels.
"The Free Syrian Army will be
the one manning traffic" through the district, which has been blocked off
ever since the opposition took over the neighbourhood, the statement added.
Local activist Abu Ammar told AFP via
the Internet that although the agreed clauses have not yet been implemented,
"the intensity of the fighting has been reduced greatly in the past three
days."
The truce also envisages that residents who had fled the district will be able to return within two weeks, and that "services will be restored".
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