Meanwhile in Syria

December 2

In recent weeks, the government, along with its ally, Russia, had opened up humanitarian corridors for eastern Aleppo residents during unilaterally imposed cease-fires.

Rebels who laid down their arms were promised an amnesty allowing them to return to government areas. Those who refused could take their personal weapons and receive passage to join other rebels in the opposition-held province of Idlib, west of Aleppo.

In one bizarre initiative, the government even invited east Aleppo residents to a “friendly soccer game” as a way to build confidence.

  LA Times

December 4

Moreover, over 500 terrorists from the Nusra Front and 1,500 members of their families have been moved out of the Syrian city of al-Tall to Idbib, Sputnik reported.

"The opposition militants took advantage of the amnesty, announced by the President of Syria. They stopped fighting and through negotiations expressed the desire to flee [from al-Tall] to Idlib. Before the departure, they handed the government forces all their heavy weapons, as well as over 200 units of small arms and ammunition," the Russian ministry said.

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"Over 2,500 militants have been granted amnesty in various parts of Syria in the past week," the ministry’s reconciliation center in Hmeymim said.

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The disarmament, mediated by the Russian military, was arranged as part of a regional ceasefire. The Syrian government organized rebels’ transfer to Idlib aboard 44 buses.

  Tasnim News Agency

December 5

At least 73 people have been killed in suspected Russian air strikes on several areas of Idlib province in northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as government forces advanced in fierce clashes with rebels in east Aleppo.

The Britain-based monitor said on Sunday at least three locations were bombed in the northwestern province and most of the casualties were civilians.

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The northern Idlib province is mostly controlled by a powerful rebel alliance known as the Army of Conquest.

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Meanwhile, government forces advanced against rebels in east Aleppo, taking two small neighbourhoods and pushing into a third, state media said.

The army and allied forces are nearly three weeks into an operation to recapture all of Syria's second city, divided between regime and rebel forces since 2012.

  alJazeera

Make a deal to get the rebels out of Aleppo and into Idlib, then attack Idlib. Sounds like a plan.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.