DAMASCUS, SYRIA (10:25 P.M.) – An astonishing deal is underway between warring parties in Syria after Islamist rebels and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) reportedly reached a verbal agreement on Monday evening to trade control of Fuah and Kafraya in Idlib province in return for Madaya and Zabadani in the Rif Dimashq governorate.
The agreement was facilitated by a delegation from Qatar while the initial part of the undisclosed deal involves a ceasefire in both areas to begin at midnight on Tuesday.
Next, besieged residents in the aforementioned towns are to be evacuated to safer areas while government troops and insurgents stationed there will undergo the same journey.
If all goes to plan in the weeks to come, rebel forces will surrender Madaya and Zabadani to the SAA while the latter will concede Fuah and Kafraya to Jaish al-Fateh.
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