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UNCOVERED: Syria authorities say armed groups have agreed to disband - The Untold Story

Islamist-led rebels launched a lightening offensive, seizing the Syrian capital earlier in December and sending former president Bashar al-Assad fleeing (Credit: AFP)

Syria's new leaders announced Tuesday that they had reached an agreement with the country's rebel groups on their dissolution and integration under the defence ministry.

Absent from the meeting were representatives of the US-backed, Kurdish-led forces that control swathes of Syria's northeast.

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