Hussam Muhammad, Baladi News, Damascus Countryside
Media sources from Damascus reported the head of the reconciliation committee in the southern region, Mazen Sirghani, saying that the negotiations in al-Yarmouk camp south of the capital reached a dead end while the regime is threatening to refrain from negotiating with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and ISIS and resort to military action again.
The sources added that the negotiations have failed because the parties didn't reach an agreement regarding the destination to which Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and ISIS militants will leave. Sirghani confirmed that they will not allow ISIS militants to head towards al-Raqqa or Deir al-Zor, while Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham refused to allow them to enter Idlib.
A Palestinian journalist who preferred to stay anonymous said to Baladi News that delaying the exit of the militants of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham after completing the previous stages of the "Four Cities Agreement" is attributed to security and military reasons by Assad's regime.
The journalist reported well-informed sources saying that Assad's regime may resort to cancel the agreement in case ISIS is defeated in al-Raqqa and Deir al-Zor.
Several groups of the injured from Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham exited towards the Syrian north through regime-held regions in exchange for getting militants and wounded from the towns of Kafrayya and al-Fu'ah in the Syrian north towards regime-held regions.