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At the Geneva talks, the Assad regime offered to provide "every access," including humanitarian aid, to women and children of the besieged city of Homs so long as the rebels give them safe passage out of the city center. A UN agency complained that regime forces are not facilitating the provision of aid to the Yarmouk refugee camp, despite assurances. In Deir Izzour, tribal gunmen agreed with the Al Nusrah Front and the sharia committee to exchange prisoners, including an Islamic battalion commander captured by Al Nusrah. In Damascus, regime forces battled Al Nusrah and Islamic battalions in al Qadam. In Hasakah, Kurdish YPG forces clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, Al Nusrah, Islamic battalions, and rebels.