TEHRAN, March 10-The first batch of foreign-backed militants, along with their families, has left Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, a day after the Syrian government opened a second safe corridor out of the militant-held enclave near the capital Damascus.
TEHRAN,Young Journalists Club (YJC) -The first batch of foreign-backed militants, along with their families, has left Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, a day after the Syrian government opened a second safe corridor out of the militant-held enclave near the capital Damascus.
Syria’s official news agency SANA reported late on Friday that 13 militants and their family members had left the flashpoint Eastern Ghouta by a bus through the al-Wafideen Camp safe corridor on the outskirts of the capital a few hours earlier.
The Nusra Front militants, who had been in prisons run by the so-called Jaish al-Islam Takfiri outfit, a rival terror group, will finally be relocated to Idlib province in northeastern Syria.
The report added that the terror groups in Eastern Ghouta were still trying to prevent civilians from leaving the enclave as they constantly target the safe passages of al-Wafideen and Jisreen “with shells and explosive bullets.”
In a statement on Twitter on Friday, the Jaish al-Islam Takfiri outfit, one of the main terror factions in Eastern Ghouta, said the decision to release some Nusra Front inmates had been made in consultation with the UN, a number of international parties and civil society representatives from the enclave.
Last week, army troops secured a safe corridor set up for the evacuation of civilians via the al-Wafideen checkpoint, through which a UN aid convoy, consisting 46 truckloads of health, food and nutrition supplies, crossed into Eastern Ghouta and headed for the main town of Douma.
Despite two weeks of intense fighting with the government troops, the main militant groups active in the enclave have so far rejected Russian-brokered offers to evacuate desperate civilians. Russia has designated four safe passage routes in Eastern Ghouta after a ceasefire was declared across Syria by the UN Security Council.
Source:Press TV
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