. >> thethe assad military denies that it has purposely starved the people. people have been wary of deals with very little or no guarantees of safe passage. humanitarian aid and evacuation an estimated 200,000, many who fled from other parts of syria, used to live nearby. activists say the cease-fire has been holding but they're unsure how long it will last. al jazeera. >> iraq says it will go to the u.n. security council if turkey does not withdraw its forces near mosul. baghdad said that the deployment close to the isil held city violates iraqi sovereignty. it maintains that it wa has trained fighters. >>> a foreigner fighting with the armed group al-shabab has handed himself in. he surrounded to an african military base in southern somalia. thethe government said that he was running for his life. he said he wanted to fight for isil rather than al-qaeda. we have more on the story. >> well, he is an american fighting alongal tha along al-shabab fighters. he handed himself over at a base that was headquarters to al-shabab forces until they lost it last year.