Simultaneously, a convoy evacuated 338 pro-government fighters and civilians from Shiite-majority Kufreya and Al-Foua, in north Syria, to Hatay, where they were flown to Beirut Monday evening.
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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.
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Insurgent groups have in turn launched attacks on the two Shiite villages in the northwestern province of Idlib, an area bordering Turkey that is mostly insurgent-controlled after a series of advances against the army this year.
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“The UN in Syria, in partnership with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have successfully facilitated the evacuation of more than 450 people including the injured and their accompanying family members”. From Turkey they were to travel on to rebel-held areas in northern Syria.
The United Nations and foreign governments have tried to broker local cease-fires and safe-passage agreements as steps towards the wider goal of ending Syria’s near five-year civil war, which has killed more than 250,000 people.
“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”, UN Humanitarian Coordinator Yaacoub El Hillo told Al Mayadeen TV from the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon.
The killing of the journalist, Naji Jerf, in Gaziantep, Turkey, happened Sunday, a day before he and his family were scheduled to fly to France, where they were seeking asylum. “It’s a very important gain for the regime forces, they’ve now cut the road between Daraa and Damascus”, said Rami Abdurrahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Mr Rahman said the Syrian government was keen to reach such agreements as part of its “efforts to secure the capital by seizing control of rebel-held areas or through ceasefire deals”.
The station had provided coverage earlier of bearded fighters wearing military-style fatigues boarding the buses amid bombed-out ruins in Zabadani.
Zabadani, a former mountain resort near the Lebanese border and the highway linking Beirut to Damascus, has been relatively quiet since September, when the deal was reached.
The evacuation deal was the most significant of several localised truces to date, involving months of mediation among warring parties.
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On Monday, at least 19 people were killed and dozens wounded in large bomb blasts in the city’s Al-Zahraa neighbourhood, Syria’s state news agency SANA said.
