On Friday the hardliner Syrian rebels and the jihadists of the Islamic State agreed of ceasefire in the southern Damascus, under an agreement which was reached between them for the first time since the beginning of the conflict earlier in the year.

According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, the Islamists and the  hardliner rebels reached the agreement of a ceasefire in Hajar al Asouant, in the southern suburbs of the Syrian capital, where both sides acted.

Under the terms of this agreement “the two sides will abide ceasefire until a definitive solution is reached and promise that they will not attack each other because they believe that the main enemy is the status nasouiri.” The rebels, with this term, they mean that the Alawites, the doctrine of which derives the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad .

After repeated defeats on the battlefield, non hardliner rebels have managed to push the enemy back, away from their four strongholds in the south east of Damascus, the Mesrampa and Maida raging in eastern Gouta, the Gialnta and Beit sachems. The jihadists then withdraw in Hajar al Asouant.

According to UN information , over 191.000 people have lost their lives in Syria since the begging of the war, in May of 2011. The last few months the situation has worsen and has become more complicated, as the hardliner rebels are fighting at the same time the Jihadists as well.