start evacuating Shiite and Sunni towns in Syria under an agreement

start evacuating Shiite and Sunni towns in Syria under an agreement


Twilight News / bus evacuated thousands of residents of the two towns in the Shi'ite opposition Thazarethma northwest Syria on Friday, while the opposition fighters began to leave two towns near Damascus with their families under an agreement between the government Oualemqatlin.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the government forces entered later in the town of Madaya time to regain control of more territory around the capital Damascus with the entry of the Syrian war in its seventh year.

Was reached similar agreements in the past few months left under which opposition fighters areas besieged by the government of President Bashar al- Assad 's forces for a long time out against the Shi'ite population of the towns encircled by fighters , mostly Sunni.

After six years of civil war, Damascus upper hand became the opposition fighters in the west of the country and was able to negotiate these agreements from a position of strength thanks to the intervention of Russia since 2015 and to increase the support of the Shiite allies Iran and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah.

The opposition says that the agreements amount to a forced change of the composition of the population and the deliberate displacement of Assad 's opponents of the major cities in western Syria.

The government says the agreements allowed them to regain control over land and restore services in towns devastated by the fighting.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens of buses discharged early on Friday , residents of the towns and insipidity Kefraya , which inhabited the majority Shiite and Ahazarethma opposition fighters long ago in the province of Idlib , a stronghold of the opposition in the country 's northwest.

He noted the observatory unit of media military loyal to Damascus that buses carrying opposition fighters and their families left at the same time , the town of Madaya ringed by government forces located near Damascus and close to the Lebanese border.

But apparently delayed evacuation in the nearby city of Zabadani besieged by the government and its allies covered by the agreement. No city buses did not leave but is expected to start the evacuation process later on Friday.

The buses will travel from Madaya and Zabadani to Idlib.

Earlier , a source from the Shiite side said that 60 bus moving in the town of insipidity.

The Observatory added that a similar number of buses leave Madaya. The state television reported that the engineering teams and Syrian forces will enter the town soon.

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Observatory said about 5,000 people are being transferred from insipidity and Kefraya while being evacuated more than 2,000 Madaya. He explained that the bus includes hundreds of fighters from both sides.


A witness said that the buses began arriving from insipidity and Kefraya to the outskirts of Aleppo earlier on Friday , adding that the opposition had been searching passengers before allowing them to cross into a government - controlled area.

Most of Syria 's population of the year. Assad belongs to the Alawite Shiite sect.

Syrian government forces and their allies have been battling Taliban opposition in nearly six years in the conflict , which began a popular uprising in 2011

and helped Russia 's intervention military 18 months ago in the heart of the tide in favor of Assad , despite diplomatic support pressures provided by Western and Gulf Arab states to opposition fighters. It launched an armed opposition groups and Islamist militants in the attacks recently and have made progress in some areas.

The United States has expanded its involvement in the conflict last week 's missile strike drew to an air base in the first US attack targeting the Syrian government forces directly.

Assad made the biggest victory in the war so far in December , when the expulsion of opposition from Aleppo , which has been divided for a long time between the two sides.

Under an agreement with opposition fighters in Aleppo they allowed the fighters to evacuate residents of insipidity and Kefraya.

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