1/ Important Development: After weeks of intense fighting in #YarmoukCamp in South #Damascus an agreement has been reached between #HTS (Nusra) & #SAA for militants to leave, deal includes #Fua & #Kafraya, #ISIS are not involved
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2. #HTS controlled areas of the #Yarmouk will surrender fully as the agreement for them to leave is set to come into effect tomorrow morning
3. #HTS Militants & their families are set to be deported to #Idleb, where there is a strong #HTS presence
4. In return those besieged in #Kafraya & #Fua numbering around 5000 will be allowed to leave the enclaves trapped by rebels in #Idleb and go to government held #Aleppo
5. #Kafraya & #Fua will be emptied in two phases & in tandem with militants leaving #Yarmouk
7. The deal will also see rebel held pro-government captives from Eshtabraq (South-East Jisr-Al-Shugur) released and they number around 85 between women, kids & elderly
8. The second phase of the agreement is still not known, that should become clearer In the next few days, seems like a pretty complicated agreement with plenty of room for error.
9. All #HTS heavy and medium weapons in #Yarmouk will be handed over to #SAA, leaving militants will only be allowed to carry personal weapons
10. This agreement is set to be completed fully before the beginning of Ramadan around 15th May, so 2 weeks is the deadline to complete this complicated process
11. #ISIS are not involved in this deal at all and areas which they control in south #Damascus including parts of #YarmoukCamp are still being targeted this evening.
12. Confirmation of the agreement buses currently gathering to enter #Yarmouk
13. 20 Buses entered #Kafraa & #Fua in order to evacuate 1500 people to government held #Aleppo. #Yarmouk evacuation also in effect
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3/ #Israel instructed local authorities in the Golan Heights to “unlock and ready bomb shelters”, after identifying apparent "irregular activity of Iranian forces in #Syria”
Thread: Here’s how the U.S led strikes on #Syria developed from here in the Capital #Damascus in the early hours of this morning
1. At around 4.30 Damascus time I awoke to initial large sounds of over 10 rocket attacks, it immediately was clear from the types of missile being heard that it was a Western Attack conducted by the #U.S #France & #U.K
2. The strikes were heard clearly in all parts of the Capital and continued on and off for a duration of 50 minutes, Syrian state media reported the strikes but didn’t provide information as to the locations