In order to secure Damascus… Russia accelerates its steps and expands its negotiations to reach new agreements about the last existence of factions in the vicinity of the capital and its countryside

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Russian attempts continue successively to secure the entire vicinity of the capital Damascus, and end any presence of fighters, where Russia is accelerating its steps within the negotiations, to expand its scope of discussions about the “settlements” in the vicinity of Damascus and its countryside, after it managed to reach a final agreement with Jaysh Al-Islam, after the presence of the factions was finished in entire Eastern Ghouta except Douma, where the agreement has being implemented since yesterday, and it will continue until all of those who reject the agreement of Jaysh Al-Islam with the Russian side, are transferred to the areas of Jarabulus and Al-Bab in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the continuation of the Russian negotiations in two main sides, one of which is in the southern Rif Dimashq, where negotiations are underway with

dignitaries and notables in the area on the other, about reaching a new agreement about the towns of Yalda, Beit Saham and Babbila, which entered in the first quarter of 2014, within a “reconciliation” with the regime forces, which remained deployed in their vicinities, while the crossings between these areas and the areas where the regime forces are located were opened, while the other side is the factions operating in the Eastern Qalamoun, which the Russian forces are trying to reach a solution about, while these factions announced their rejection to the displacement and the change of the structure of the population or destroying these areas, and their readiness to defense these areas they control if they subjected to any attacks by extremists or the other militiamen, expressing their willingness negotiate about the future of the area, through the information office of the unified command in the Eastern Qalamoun.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned in the past few days from a number of reliable sources, that the Russian forces are seeking to impose a full circle of their presence around the capital Damascus, in conjunction with information received to the SOHR about preparations by the regime forces and their allies to carry out a military operation against the “Islamic State” organization in the south of the capital Damascus, while it is noteworthy that the southern Rif Dimashq has witnessed calm for years, in the wake of “reconciliation” between the fighters of the three towns with the regime forces mediated by dignitaries and notables in the area, while the Russian movement aims to find a final solution for these areas, through terms intersected sources said that they are based on handing over the heavy and medium weapons and the departure of those reject the agreement from the area to destinations that are unknown until now, and the Eastern Qalamoun have been witnessing a cease of military operations in it, shelling and clashes between the factions against the regime forces for months, after the presence of the organization was finished in it.