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Dozens of anti-Assad militants evacuated from southern Syria
[Ynet] Militants, including some associated with al-Qaeda, are bussed away with their families from the area bordering the Israeli Golan Heights in an agreement between Assad and the rebels, returning control of the strategic area to forces supporting the Assad regime.Dozens of Syrian faceless myrmidons and their families departed aboard buses from an area besieged by government forces near the Golan Heights early Saturday, part of a deal to clear yet another district from holy warriors. The government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media said 153 people, including 106 fighters, left the village of Beit Jin early Saturday toward the southern province of Daraa. The Ibaa news agency of the al-Qaeda-linked Levant Liberation Committee said six buses carrying fighters and their families arrived in rebel-held parts of Daraa province. On Friday, Syria's state news agency SANA said some 300 al-Qaeda-linked faceless myrmidons and their families would be sent to Daraa and the northwestern province of Idlib. The evacuation allows the government to reassert control over Beit Jin near the Golan Heights that were captured by Israel from Syria during the 1967 Mideast war. Israel has publicly warned against the accumulation of Iranian and Iranian-backed forces at its border. Iran has arranged for thousands of gunnies from across the region to fight on behalf of Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's government and has sent top commanders to direct its own Revolutionary Guards in the country as well. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-31 |
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