Islamist groups and pro-regime forces agreed late Tuesday on a 48-hour ceasefire in flashpoint towns in northwest Syria and along the border with Lebanon, a monitoring group said, according to the AFP news agency.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the brief ceasefire in Zabadani, the last rebel bastion on the Syrian-Lebanese border, will begin at 6:00 a.m. local time (0300 GMT).
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