According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Syrian government has reached a 48-hour ceasefire deal with the Islamist bloc of rebels led by al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front, with both sides agreeing to a simultaneous ceasefire at several contested towns and villages.
The biggest of the towns is Zabadani, along the Lebanon border, which is under the control of the rebels. At the same time, the ceasefire will expand to some government-held villages in the northwestern Idlib Province, taking pressure off both areas.
Hezbollah and some Iranian backed militias are also party to the agreement, which is an important point since Hezbollah, and not the Syrian military, has been doing most of the fighting in the area around Zabadani recently. The deal in the Idlib villages is said to also allow food and medical aid into the Shi’ite villages, which are surrounded.
Tit-for-tat local ceasefires have happened periodically in Syria’s Civil War, and may become more common as there are more and more combatant factions, and groups hope to gain some advantage by temporarily focusing on a different enemy.
"since Hezbollah, and not the Syrian military, has been doing most of the fighting in the area around Zabadani recently"
And how exactly has Ditz, who in this case never left his comfortable US chair, let alone the US, let alone the state he resides in, to actually report directly from or anywhere near the event he is reporting on, come to this very conclusion?
That´s an important question because his guesses are as good as ours. We can ourselves read/watch his sources of information, which, judging from the links he provides, is Pentagon/CNN/FOX/Yahoo/BBC etc,and even the notoriously US/UK founded "Syrian Observatory For Human Rights" one man band, a certain Rami Abdul Raman in his apartment in England.
Those sources are of course parts in the conflict who refers to Syria as "regime", President Assad as "dictator" and their local death squad mercenari clients as "rebels". Now if we throw in independent news sources and those of BRICS countries (RT, Sputnik,Press tv CCTV and so on) , their allies and the rest of the free world, we get an entirely different picture and eventually, an entirely different conclusion.