"Through international mediation to halt the attacks and violations against our people in Aleppo, we have reached an understanding leading to a ceasefire and the safe evacuation of martyrs, the wounded, trapped civilians, and fighters from the Achrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods to northern and eastern Syria,"
"mediators to uphold their promises to stop the violations and work towards the safe return of the displaced to their homes."
"Reuters and Associated Press reporters said they saw men, women and children being put onto buses by Syrian army forces to be taken to displacement camps. Reuters also reported some 100 men, identified as Kurdish internal Asayesh security forces, being put on buses. The Asayesh later denied the men were fighters, saying instead they were civilians being forceably displaced."
Fighting erupted in Aleppo over how to integrate various militant groups into a new military structure, leaving at least 22 dead and displacing more than 140,000 people. A ceasefire with the Syrian government allowed the last Kurdish forces and a number of civilians to be transported out of Achrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud on buses to northern and eastern Syria. Syrian army forces were deployed into neighborhoods long held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. SDF commander Mazloum Abdi said international mediation produced the ceasefire and called on mediators to ensure safe returns. US envoy Tom Barrack urged an end to the fighting.
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