The 330 Shi’ites were evacuated from the Idlib towns to the Lebanese capital of Beirut, where they were welcomed by Hezbollah.
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Sectarian anger was also enflamed in eastern parts of Saudi, with hundreds of Shia Muslims marching through the streets. Islamic scholars around the world hold vastly different views on the application of the death penalty in Shariah law.
A rare UN-backed deal between Syria’s warring sides saw hundreds of fighters and civilians evacuate three towns on Monday, as bomb explosions in the regime-held city of Homs killed at least 19 people.
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Wide receiver Calvin Ridley caught eight balls for 138 yards and two scores, both coming during a third-quarter barrage. Scoring grabs of 50 and 6 yards by Ridley were sandwiched around cornerback Cyrus Jones’ 57-yard punt-return touchdown.
Fighters from a coalition of rebel groups called “Jaish al-Fateh”, also known as the “Army of Fatah” (Conquest Army), escort buses evacuating fighters and civilians.
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In September, both sides reached an agreement for a six-month truce in Zabadani, the last rebel bastion on Syria’s border with Lebanon, and in Fuaa and Kafraya, the last two government-held Shiite villages in northwestern Idlib province.
The next part of the deal, according to the Britain-based observatory, will see humanitarian aid delivered into the towns.
Insurgent groups have in turn launched attacks on the two Shi’ite villages that intensified after most of Idlib province fell to rebels after a series of advances against the army this year.
They were to fly into Lebanon and cross overland to Damascus.
The United Nations and foreign governments have tried to broker local ceasefires and safe-passage agreements as steps towards the wider goal of ending Syria’s near five-year civil war.
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.
Meanwhile, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV said the busses of the Zabadani people arrived to the Jdaidet Yabous border crossing between Syria and Lebanon, to be transported from the Syrian Red Crescent cars to the Red Cross ones, which will take them to Lebanon’s global airport of Rafiq al-Hariri to be flown later in the afternoon to Turkey. Hezbollah fighters have been killed in battles around Zabadani.
Relief workers and rebel fighters helped carry several young men in wheelchairs onto ambulances in a square in Zabadani, one witness told Reuters.
The Shia Syrians are expected to travel on to Lebanon.
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Similar ceasefire deals have been implemented in other parts of the country throughout Syria’s war, often after crippling sieges of rebel-held areas.
