UPDATE 1015 GMT: Reports are circulating that, despite promises in capitulation agreements against detention, men are being seized by regime forces.

Activist Deana Lynn writes from East Ghouta:

Talks are closing on a surrender agreement for Douma, the center of and last significant opposition position in East Ghouta near Syria’s capital Damascus.

The remaining towns of East Ghouta have been reoccupied by pro-Assad forces, enabled by Russian airstrikes in a seven-week offensive which has killed more than 1,600 people, wounded thousands, and displaced tens of thousands. Earlier this week, the rebel faction Ahrar al-Sham agreed to leave Harasta, and Failaq al-Rahman capitulated in Arbin and other towns after hundreds of people were bombed and burned to death.

Jaish al-Islam, the leading faction in Douma, has been in talks with Russian officials but has not yet agreed a deal for forced displacement.

The talks are reportedly sticking over the destination of removed fighters and their families. Jaish al-Islam does not want transfer to Idlib Province in northwest Syria, possibly because of tense relations with other groups in the area, but to another opposition part of Syria.

More than 350,000 people lived in East Ghouta, held by the opposition since 2012 and besieged soon after that by the Assad regime, before the current offensive. Tens of thousands moved to regime frontlines this month amid the incessant pro-Assad airstrikes and ground assault, while others fled deeped into opposition territory.

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One of those forcibly removed, Hazem al-Shami, said on Saturday:

We will leave Ghouta but one day we will return. They have managed to silence the revolution but it will never die.

We repeatedly asked the international community for help but they didn’t do anything. It’s a very difficult time for us but we will return.

A mother leaving Harasta echoed, “It was a very bad situation. The children were hungry because of the siege and scared because of the bombing. They didn’t have milk. We pleaded with the aid agencies but no one helped us.”

Meanwhile, the sisters Noor and Alaa, who have used social media to tell the world about the assault, remain in East Ghouta:

Arrival of the Harasta displaced in northwest Syria:

HARASTA DISPLACED IN NW SYRIA