An agreement was reached Thursday between the warring parties in Syria for a six-month truce in the rebel-held town of Zabadani and two Shiite towns in the northwest, a monitor told AFP.
"A ceasefire in Zabadani and the villages of Fuaa and Kafraya was agreed under the sponsorship of the UN," Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the news agency.
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