Aid convoys arranged by the medical charity Red Crescent have entered the besieged Syrian town of Daraya as hundreds of rebel fighters prepared to lay down their arms after ceding control of the area to government forces.

A convoy of Red Crescent ambulances reached Daraya early on Friday, a town located just a few kilometres from President Bashar al-Assad's Damascus palace and the government-held Mazzeh airbase.

On Thursday, Syrian state news agency SANA announced a deal had been struck for the evacuation of civilians and fighters in the town.

(Al Jazeera)