Syrian deal to evacuate tens of thousands of people begins

  14 April 2017    Read: 1137
Syrian deal to evacuate tens of thousands of people begins
The Syrian government and opposition forces began a coordinated population swap Friday of about 10,000 people from four towns besieged for years.
About 5,000 people were evacuated on 75 buses from two pro-government towns in northern Syria to the nearby city of Aleppo, said Abdul Hakim Baghdadi, who helped negotiate the arrangement.

The predominantly Shiite Foua and Kfraya have remained loyal to the Syrian government while the surrounding Idlib province has come under hard-line Sunni, rebel rule. Near the capital of Damascus, some 60 buses carrying 2,350 opposition fighters, activists and their families departed from two opposition-held towns in the direction of Idlib, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group and Syrian state media.

/AP/

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