Russia, Iran, Turkey and President Bashar al-Assad have all agreed to meet in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana to try to end the conflict in Syria, President Vladimir Putin has said. <br /><br /> The Russian leader’s announcement came as some residents started moving back into eastern Aleppo on Friday after the government took full control of the war-battered city. <br /><br /> Their return marks the end of at least one brutal chapter in Syria’s near six-year war. <br /><br /> When asked whether he still had trust in his country, one man returning to Aleppo said: “No, certainly not. Neither in one side nor in the other. It’s too much (complicated) to go into details.”<br /><br /> Although the Syrian government has vowed to rebuild, the scale of the destruction inflicted on Eastern Aleppo is staggering. <br /><br /> Some 33,000 homes are reckoned to have been destroyed, while the city’s historic citadel has been left in tatters. <br /><br /> According to Syrian state TV, army experts have started dismantling explosives and booby-traps planted by rebels in the city before they were evacuated earlier this week.<br />
