A day after the pro-Assad coalition launched what The Mirror in the United Kingdom called a “Doomsday attack” on the densely populated city of Nawa in southern Daraa near the Israeli border on the Golan Heights, the Syrian rebels in the Quneitra region decided to surrenderwithout a fight.
The predominantly Islamist rebels agreed to surrender terms dictated by the Assad regime while the deal was negotiated by the Russian military in Syria.
The rebels and their families were given the choice of accepting safe passage to the Idlib province in northwest Syria, home to large Sunni Arab population, or to remain in Quneitra on terms dictated by the regime in Damascus.
The deal marks another decisive victory for the Iranian-Russian backed pro-Assad coalition which has recovered control over large swatches of territory throughout Syria since the Russian intervention in September 2016.
The Syrian army, which has turned into an Iranian proxy, will now return to pre-2011 positions along the Israeli border, Reuters and other media reported on Thursday.
A copy of the deal sent to Reuters showed that the 90th and the 61st brigade of the Syrian army will return to positions they held prior to the 2011 uprising against the Syrian dictator, while Russian military police would safeguard the execution of the agreement.
The Israeli broadcaster Kan reported earlier that Israel and Russia are negotiating a return to the 1974 demarcation lines by the Syrian army according to the Separation of Forces Agreement of May 1974.
The Israeli and Russian governments have formed working groups which are currently studying issues such as the re-installment of the demilitarized zones and no-man’s land on the Golan Heights, as well as the deployment of Syrian and IDF forces along the border on the mountainous plateau.
The Kan report effectively confirmed what Russian president Vladimir Putin said after his meeting with US president Donald Trump earlier this week.
“The situation on the Golan Heights must be restored to what it was after the 1974 agreement, which set out the terms for the disengagement of forces between Israel and Syria,” Putin told reporters after his meeting with Trump in Helsinki, Finland. READ MORE
The deal marks another decisive victory for the Iranian-Russian backed pro-Assad coalition which has recovered control over large swatches of territory throughout Syria since the Russian intervention in September 2016.
The Syrian army, which has turned into an Iranian proxy, will now return to pre-2011 positions along the Israeli border, Reuters and other media reported on Thursday.
A copy of the deal sent to Reuters showed that the 90th and the 61st brigade of the Syrian army will return to positions they held prior to the 2011 uprising against the Syrian dictator, while Russian military police would safeguard the execution of the agreement.
The Israeli broadcaster Kan reported earlier that Israel and Russia are negotiating a return to the 1974 demarcation lines by the Syrian army according to the Separation of Forces Agreement of May 1974.
The Israeli and Russian governments have formed working groups which are currently studying issues such as the re-installment of the demilitarized zones and no-man’s land on the Golan Heights, as well as the deployment of Syrian and IDF forces along the border on the mountainous plateau.
The Kan report effectively confirmed what Russian president Vladimir Putin said after his meeting with US president Donald Trump earlier this week.
“The situation on the Golan Heights must be restored to what it was after the 1974 agreement, which set out the terms for the disengagement of forces between Israel and Syria,” Putin told reporters after his meeting with Trump in Helsinki, Finland. READ MORE
