Dozens of Syrian rebel fighters are being evacuated from the village of Zabadani near the Lebanese border under a UN-brokered deal.
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Simultaneously, militants holed up in the Syrian town of Zabadani will be granted safe passage to Beirut airport and then be flown to Turkey.
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Syrian opposition fighters, some on wheel chairs, stretchers or using crutches, gathered Monday in a square in the Syrian mountain resort of Zabadani and boarded buses and ambulances that began taking them to Lebanon from where they will be flown to Turkey.
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A similar operation to evacuate rebels, including from the so-called Islamic State group, from the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk outside Damascus collapsed on Saturday shortly before it was due to start.
The mostly Sunni Muslim rebel fighters going to Turkey would then be able to go back to rebel-held areas in Syria through the northern Turkish border or stay for treatment, according to rebel sources close to the negotiations.
The two parties, under the mediation by Iran and Turkey, agreed to establish a six-month truce which was planned to be followed by the evacuation of the wounded as a next step.
Zabadani has been under siege by Syrian army and Hizballah forces for almost a year who never broke through toe capture the village, while the two towns lived under the siege of Sunni rebels.
The cease-fire was planned to be followed by a 25-point agreement, which is expected to start soon to settle the situation in the Shiite towns and Zabadani.
More than 100 Syrian rebel fighters are being allowed to safely leave a besieged town outside Damascus as part of a U.N.-supported deal.
The agreement also includes bringing an end to confrontations and attacks in towns of Binnish, Taftanaz, Taum, Maret Misrin, and cities of Idlib, Ram Hamdan, Zardna, and Shallakh in the province of Idlib.
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Idlib Province is overwhelmingly under the control of rebels, primarily al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra.
