Monday, December 28, 2015

Evacuation of 450 from besieged Syrian areas completed - sources


A man waves a Syrian opposition flag as others cheer upon the arrival of a UN and Red Cross convoy escorting more than 125 fighters from the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Zabadani at the Masnaa border crossing between Lebanon and SyriaA U.N. operation to evacuate around 450 Syrian fighters and their families from two besieged Syrian areas was completed on Monday with the arrival of planes carrying them to Beirut and Hatay airport in Turkey, U.N. and airport sources said. A plane carrying 126 rebel fighters trapped in Zabadani near the Lebanese border landed at almost the same time in Turkey, the sources said.


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