Syrian rebels said they seized control of the southern city of Daraa on Saturday, APA reports citing Reuters.
Rebel sources said the military agreed to make an orderly withdrawal from Daraa under a deal giving army officials safe passage to the capital Damascus, about 100 km (60 miles) north.
Daraa, which had a population of more than 100,000 before the civil war began 13 years ago, holds symbolic importance as the cradle of the uprising. It is the capital of a province of about 1 million people, bordering Jordan.
The rebels seized Aleppo and Hama in the northwest and centre earlier in the lightning offensive that began on Nov. 27.
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