The deal reached in September, which provides for the transfer of thousands of Shiite and Sunni civilians and fighters, is one of a number of ground-level deals to end fighting in parts of Syria, which has experienced a almost five-year conflict that has claimed more than 250,000 lives and displaced more than 4 million people.
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Turkey provided logistic support for the evacuation of two besieged areas on December 28 under a United Nations-sponsored agreement brokered by regional powers that are part of efforts by the U.N.to establish local deals on cease-fires and safe passage.
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336 wounded fighters and civilians from pro-government Shiite towns in northern Syria have arrived in Turkey, while another 123 from the rebel-held town of Zabadani, have been bused to Beirut.
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Residents of Fuaa and Kafraya crossed through the Bab al Hawa border point and are to fly into Beirut to travel overland to Damascus. That deal saw the Syrian government allow fighters to withdraw with their weapons from the last besieged neighborhood in the city in exchange for a return to government control and supplies to beleaguered citizens.
“We appreciate the cooperation of all sides, of the Syrian, Turkish, and Lebanese governments, and all the sides that have signed on to this humanitarian agreement”, said United Nations humanitarian coordinator Yaacoub El Hillo in comments to Al-Mayadeen TV from the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon.
The next step envisions the government allowing aid shipments to civilians who have spent months under siege and seen Zabadani destroyed by a relentless regime and Hezbollah onslaught.
Dozens of people gathered at the Masnaa crossing rushed the buses as ambulance sirens wailed.
Zabadani, northwest of the capital Damascus, was one of the rebels’ last strongholds along the border.
Rebel fighters had been holding on, but faced nearly certain defeat.
The evacuation deal was the most significant of several localised truces to date, involving months of mediation among warring parties.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on Syrian activists, said the blasts killed 32 and wounded 90.
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“These terrorist, cowardly, and desperate attacks come in response to the growing spirit of national reconciliation throughout Syria”, Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said in comments carried by state news agency SANA.
