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Amateur video posted online purports to show Syrian rebels clashing near the military airport in Damascus province, on the eve of UN meetings to discuss a possible ceasefire. Mana Rabiee reports.
Syrian rebels and their families left Syria's Eastern Ghouta on Thursday under a Russian-brokered evacuation deal that is the first for the shrinking opposition enclave outside Damascus. They were bussed out in direction of the northwestern province of Idlib, after hours of waiting in a buffer zone for a green light to enter regime-held territory. IMAGES
US Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications, Ben Rhodes, warned Turkey against engaging with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), during the daily press briefing in Washington D.C. on Monday. Rhodes said that although the US support the Turkish effort to rid Jarablus of so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) fighters, they do not however "support and we would oppose efforts to move south and engage in activities against" the SDF.
Rebels and Syria's army agree a deal to evacuate all residents and insurgents from the besieged Damascus suburb of Daraya, ending one of the longest stand-offs in the five-year conflict.
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