Monday, December 28, 2015

Hundreds of fighters and civilians escape besieged Syrian areas under U.N. deal


Girls carry banners as they wait at Masnaa border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, for the arrival of their relatives, who are rebel fighters who left the town of ZabadaniBy Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Around 450 Syrian fighters and their families were evacuated from two besieged areas on Monday under the kind of operation that the United Nations hopes can be a stepping stone toward a wider peace accord in the country's civil war. U.N. and airport sources said two planes with 330 Syrian Shi'ite fighters and civilians evacuated from two pro-government towns in northwestern Syria arrived in Beirut airport. Another plane carrying 126 mostly Sunni Muslim rebel fighters trapped in Zabadani near the Lebanese border landed at Hatay airport in southern Turkey, the sources said.


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