It has been held by a coalition of ultraconservative Islamic militias, including the Martyrs of Islam Brigade.
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The first phase of the deal includes the evacuation of some residents to temporary housing centers outside Damascus, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported.
Under the terms of the agreement, some 700 gunmen and 4,000 civilians are to evacuate the suburb. Civilians were escorted to shelters in government-controlled suburbs of Damascus.
It also improves security around Assad’s seat of power, pacifying an entire region southwest of Damascus that was once a backbone of the rebellion.
Meanwhile a bloody battle for the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest, is ongoing.
Daraya had been ravaged by constant bombardment by the army and the long years of siege that saw just a single food aid convoy reach the town since late 2012.
Friday’s remarks by Binali Yildirim follow Turkey’s incursion into Syria.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the second and final convoy of militants and civilians left Darayya on Saturday. The group claimed to have captured two Kurdish fighters. Russian Federation and the United States have largely backed opposing sides in Syria’s civil war.
Earlier an SDF-affiliated group said Turkish airstrikes targeted its bases and civilian homes south of Jarablus.
In the years that followed, activists say, the area became a symbol of the worldwide community’s retreat from support for their cause in the face of global complications. Turkish special forces, tanks and jets launched the incursion in support of Syrian rebels, mostly Turkmen and Arab, who quickly took the border town of Jarablus from Islamic State on Wednesday. US -backed Kurdish-led fighters seized the town of Manbij from IS militants earlier this month, raising concerns they will advance toward Jarablus along the border with Turkey.
An agreement between the rebels and Assad’s regime was reached Thursday.
Elsewhere at least 15 people died in barrel bombings in Aleppo, reports say.
Turkish police and firefighters are parked near a damaged police headquarters after a auto bomb killed 11 Turkish police officers and injured 45 people on Friday in Cizre, southeastern Turkey. Minutes later, Khandakani said another barrel bomb was dropped, injuring an ambulance driver, and hampering rescue efforts.
It was one of the first towns to erupt in anti-government protests in March 2011.
On top of napalm attacks, the women also detail how the government has bombed and cut off access to basic necessities such as food and electricity for years, using “starvation as a weapon”. Last week its only hospital was hit, rebels and aid workers said.
It called the raids “a unsafe escalation”, and said there had been injuries.
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The Jarablus Military Council is supported by the USA -backed and Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces.
