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Syrian opposition officials said today that a ceasefire deal for Aleppo was back on track, and its implementation, including evacuations from the last opposition-held areas of the city would begin “within hours”.
“An agreement has been reached and within the coming hours its implementation will begin,” Abdul Salam Abdul Razak, a military spokesman for the Nour Al-Din al Zinki group, told Reuters.
He said the deal included the evacuation of people from two villages besieged by the opposition in Idlib province, a condition introduced by the government side for the truce deal, which stalled today amid heavy fighting in Aleppo, to resume.
An official in the pro-Damascus military alliance confirmed the truce deal was on, and said some 15,000 people would be evacuated from the villages, Foua and Kefraya, in return for the evacuation from Aleppo of “militants and their families and whoever wants to leave among civilians”. He said they would head for Idlib province.
An official in the Jabha Shamiya rebel group said implementation would begin around 06:00 (04:00 GMT) tomorrow.