The fate of a nationwide truce for Syria remains unclear with the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), the country's main political opposition bloc, telling Al Jazeera it has still not received a draft plan from either Turkey or Russia.

Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency had reported on Wednesday that a ceasefire plan had been submitted to Syria's rival parties and could come into force as early as midnight.
But the SNC, which represents the Free Syrian Army and other opposition groups fighting across the country, told Al Jazeera that it was yet to receive a draft of the document.

Labib Nahhas, the foreign relations head of the powerful Ahrar al-Sham opposition group, said the faction was "aware of ongoing discussions between Russia and Turkey about a nationwide ceasefire".

He said opposition factions had not been presented with any official proposal.

"Russia wants to exclude Eastern Ghouta from the ceasefire, which is not acceptable," he told the AFP news agency, referring to a rebel-held area outside Damascus.

Meanwhile, sources told Al Jazeera that a new meeting was planned in Ankara on Thursday, this time between Syrian opposition forces, Turkey and Russia.

Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford, reporting from Gaziantep in neighboring Turkey, said it remained unclear which opposition groups had been taking part in previous negotiations.

"A senior official from the Free Syrian Army says that the FSA has rejected a proposal by Russia and that Douma, one of its strongholds near the capital Damascus, would not be included in the ceasefire agreement," Stratford said.

On Wednesday, a source requesting anonymity had told Anadolu that "terrorist organizations" would be excluded from the deal.

This would most certainly exclude the ISIS group and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, the group formerly known as al-Nusra Front.

If successful, the latest proposal could form the basis of upcoming political negotiations between Damascus and the opposition, overseen by Russia and Turkey in the Kazakh capital Astana, Anadolu added.

Ankara has hosted a succession of closed-door talks between Russia and Syrian opposition forces over the last weeks.

Ankara and Moscow have been on opposing sides in the Syrian war, with Turkey seeking the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, who is backed by Russia and Iran.

The Syrian war started as a largely unarmed uprising against Assad in March 2011, but quickly developed into a full-on armed conflict.

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The night sky is seen through damaged windows in the opposition-controlled town of Binnish in Idlib province, Syria September 7, 2016. REUTERS

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