Syria militants ‘reach truce’ with ISIL

The deal, brokered by another Takfiri al-Qaeda-linked group al-Nusra Front, was signed in a Damascus suburb, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday.
 
The agreement stipulates that all sides should respect a truce until the downfall of the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
 
Over the past few months, the Syrian crisis has entered a new stage as armed conflicts have escalated among different militant groups.
 
The truce comes as the US administration has put its weight behind a plan to provide more weapons to the so-called moderate opposition groups under the pretext that such militants can fight against the ISIL.
 
Analysts, however, have already expressed concern over the plan and warned that those militant groups will share the US weapons with the ISIL Takfiris.
 
On September 10, US President Barack Obama authorized airstrikes against the ISIL positions in Syria for the first time.
 
The ISIL terrorists control large swathes of Syria’s northern territory. The group sent its members into neighboring Iraq in June and seized large parts of land there as well.