Turkey Wednesday announced its military campaign inside northern Syria was over, without specifying whether it will pull its troops out from the neighboring country.
Guns fell silent over four Syrian towns Wednesday after an evacuation deal was reached between pro-government forces and rebels, in the latest of a series of deals to end crippling years-long sieges.
The deal reached late Tuesday involves Zabadani and Madaya, besieged by regime fighters near Damascus, and Shiite-majority Al-Foua and Kefraya in northwest Syria that are encircled by rebels.
The Observatory, a British-based monitor, said the residents of Zabadani, Madaya, Al-Foua and Kefraya are to quit their towns in 60 days starting next Tuesday.
All of the residents of Al-Foua and Kefraya are expected to leave, while it was unclear if the evacuations of Madaya and Zabadani would empty the towns completely.
The new deal, which Syria's Arab Red Crescent will help implement, also stipulates that Syria's regime releases 1,500 prisoners held for political activism since the uprising began in 2011 but gives no time frame.In
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