ma 28 jan 2015, 09:23

Evacuation of fighters, Syrian border town

BEIRUT –

Ambulances and buses are on Monday began the evacuation of rebellenstrijders from the Syrian town of Zabadani. By an agreement between the warring parties get the fighters, among whom were also wounded, a free passage to the Beirut international airport with destination Turkey, says rebellenbronnen in the city.

A rebellenstrijder in Zabadani.
Photo: Reuters

The rebellenstrijders have spent months holed up in Zabadani, a town near the Lebanese border. By the agreement, which has the support of the United Nations, they can to the besieged city now abandoned. At the same time will be approximately three hundred families in two besieged shiite towns in the northwestern province of Idlib, in a convoy to the Turkish border travel, where they continue to fly to Beirut.