A ceasefire accord reached in Aleppo after reports of massacre

DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. December 13, 2016, 9:26 PM (IDT)

A cease-fire agreement has been reached that would allow civilians and remaining rebel fighters trapped in the besieged Syrian city to evacuate, NBC confirmed Tuesday. Five buses will head into the enclave in the eastern section of the city to pick up the survivors around 5 a.m. Wednesday local time, a source said.

It was not immediately clear what weapons the fighters will be allowed to take with them, they said in the hope that Aleppo’s two-year bloody siege and battle.
Yasser al-Yusuf of the Nurdin Az-Zinki brigade told the AFP news agency that its fighters had been allowed to evacuate east Aleppo and take light weapons with them, as negotiations continued between rebels and Syrian government representatives. 

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