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Negotiations on the evacuation of militant groups from the Old City in central Syria have reached to a final agreement, Homs governor Talal Barazi said on Saturday. “A ceasefire agreement in Old City Homs and surrounding areas is starting at 12.30pm (9.30GMT) for over 24 hours. Armed rebels will leave the Old City and head towards northern outskirts and the army will take over the Old City,” Barazi said. Beibars Tilawi, a Homs-based activist said the first of about 1,000 militants would withdraw from the Old City on Saturday at noon local time (9am GMT) to countryside to the north of the city. The withdrawal is expected to be supervised by a UN delegation and the government reconciliation committee. Militants would also withdraw from al-Ghintou, Talbiseh, Dar al-Kabira, and Rastan, all areas of the city still under siege. The city is strategically important as it connects government strongholds along the western coast with the capital, Damascus. “The regime is concentrating on retaking strategic territory, it is part of their plan to partition the country,” said Khaled el-Khoja, of the Syrian National Council, an opposition block in exile. | ||||
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297 TERRORISTS SURRENDER IN HOMS OLD CITY
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The Syrian army continued Saturday its national mission in pursuing the armed terrorist groups, advancing in a number of strategic areas and having successful operations against terrorists' gatherings. The Army advanced in al-Ramoseh and al-Ameriah neighborhoods in Aleppo Province, a military source told SANA reporter Saturday. The source said that the army units also confronted armed terrorist groups tried to sneak toward Brakat al-Arman and al-Hamidiah in Aleppo city, leaving the groups' members killed and wounded. The army units also destroyed a terrorists' hideout in al-Hatab yard in Aleppo and a tunnel was used by terrorists in their movements and criminal acts, killing a number of them and injuring others. Army units continued the process of removing mines planted by terrorists in al-Breij town which the army recaptured yesterday. Numbers of terrorists were killed and others were wounded in the neighborhoods of Bani Zeid, al-Ashrafiyeh, al-Lairamoun, Bustan al-Qasr, al-Kastello, al-Sheikh S’eed and al-Mashhad in the city. Other terrorists were targeted and eliminated in the towns and villages of Handarat, Babis, Andan, the Industrial City, Hreitan, Tall Raf’at, Kweires, Rasm al-Abboud, al-Wdeihi and Jadideh and in the surrounding of Aleppo Central Prison in the countryside. Heavy machine guns mounted on terrorists’ vehicles were destroyed in the towns and villages of al-Wdeihi, B’edin, Hreitan and al-Mislmiyeh and in the neighborhoods of Hanano and al-Jandoul. Army units also killed terrorists in Marei’ town and near al-Zarzour hospital in al-Sukkari neighborhood. Army members killed all members of an armed terrorist group as they were setting up a mortar on Mleihet al-Atash-al-Hrak road in the countryside of Daraa. Army units held back and armed terrorist group that was trying to infiltrate from northeastern Nawa town in Daraa towards Jdeira Hill in the countryside of Quneitra province, leaving its members dead and wounded. In Homs, a military source told SANA reporter that the army units confronted terrorist groups tried to attack military checkpoints in Sha'er Mount and Bsira, West of Palmyra, and near the junction of al-Sindieh in Talbeseh in Homs countryside. The terrorist groups' members were killed and wounded. Related Articles | |
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