Each of the participants carried wooden crosses bearing the names of victims.

Some see the end of the registry as a way to make it difficult for an incoming Donald Trump administration to target Muslims through such a program.

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The truce does not include the Islamic State group or al-Qaida's branch in Syria. Several previous ceasefires all collapsed, some of them in a matter of days.