Syria:

Over 6,700 Militants, Family Members Transported from Eastern Ghouta to Idlib

TEHRAN (defapress)- More than 6,700 militants and their families left Syria’s Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus via a humanitarian corridor on Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday, adding that they were transported to Idlib province.

News ID: 69405

Date: 27 March 2018 - 22:40

“On the basis of an earlier agreement signed by senior officials of the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation and leaders of the Faylaq al-Rahman group, militants continued to withdraw from the settlement of Arbin (Eastern Ghouta) on March 26, and a sum of 6,749 militants and members of their families left the area through the organized humanitarian corridor and were transported by 110 buses to the province of Idlib,” the ministry’s statement read.

The total number of militants and their families, who have left Arbin in the past three days, has reached 13,190 people, the ministry added.

Furthermore, as a result of the agreements reached by the Russian reconciliation center with the leaders of the militant groups, 26 illegally detained Syrian servicemen and civilians, who were held captive by the Faylaq al-Rahman group, were released on Monday, according to the statement.