© AFP 2016/ RAMI AL-SAYED Member of Islamist group Ansar al-Islam and the Ahrar ash-Sham (Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant) group
The sides have agreed that the remaining civilians and militants would leave Aleppo in return for selective evacuation from the Syrian towns of Foua, Madaya and Zabadani, Al Arabiya TV channel said citing an audio record from Ahrar ash-Sham.
The information has not yet been confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry's center for Syrian reconciliation or Syrian authorities.On Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry's center for Syrian reconciliation said that the Syrian army's operation to liberate the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo was over, and that the Syrian government troops were eliminating separate hotbeds of militants' resistance. On the same day, the reconciliation center said that the operation to evacuate militants and their families from Aleppo ended.
Humanitarian situation in the Syrian cities of Foua, Madaya and Zabadani has seriously deteriorated, as the battle between the government troops and militants is ongoing, with many civilians trapped in the cities and suffering from starvation.
Comment: The Russian Defense Ministry
said that the operation to evacuate militants from Aleppo has really separated so-called Syrian "moderate" rebels from terrorists after the US failed to do so.
"The operation carried out by the Russian center for [Syrian] reconciliation on the evacuation of militants and their families from Aleppo is unique not only because this operation saved the lives of some 10,000 Syrians. This operation opened opportunities to impose regimes of halted combat activities not only in the Aleppo province, but also in other Syria's regions," Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
He also said that "first of all thanks to Russian officers of the center for reconciliation, the real separation of fighters of the so-called moderate opposition from radicals took place. Our American colleagues have thought that it's impossible to be implemented in practice for a whole year."
The operation shows that it is necessary to have a desire to agree with all parties of the conflict on the ground except for terrorists to achieve Syrian reconciliation, Konashenkov said.
"All attempts to replace this hard negotiating process with armed opposition on the ground by conferences in Western capitals with representatives of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) or by sending some 'observers' to Aleppo are useless and a dead-end. The sooner [officials in] Paris, London and Washington, who are not even able to send humanitarian aid to Syria, realize it, the sooner there will be peace [in the country]."
Comment: The Russian Defense Ministry said that the operation to evacuate militants from Aleppo has really separated so-called Syrian "moderate" rebels from terrorists after the US failed to do so.