Hundreds of Terrorists, Family Members to Leave Northern Damascus

The sources confirmed that almost 2,000 gunmen and their family members will leave Barzeh district for Northern Syria and militant-held region in Eastern Ghouta on Wednesday.

They added that the third phase of the evacuation deal will be done next Sunday.

Local sources said on Tuesday that 568 gunmen and 454 of their family members left Barzeh district in Northern Damascus after handing over their heavy weapons in line with the implementation of the first phase of the evacuation deal with the  army.

They added that simultaneous with the implementation of the first phase of the peace agreement with the army in Barzeh district, the first phase of the evacuation of gunmen and their family members started in the Yarmouk Palestinians Refugee Camp in the Southern countryside of Damascus.

The sources added that in line with implementation of an evacuation agreement between the army and militants in the towns of Fua’a and Kafraya in Idlib and al-Zabadani and Madhays in Western Damascus, 25 gunmen of Al-Nusra Front (also known as Fatah al-Sham Front or the Levant Liberation Board) along with their family members also left the Yarmouk camp in seven ambulances via Rama passageway.

In the meantime, 170 Al-Nusra gunmen and 30 of their family members will leave the camp next week in the second phase of the evacuation deal.

Local sources in Idlib reported, meantime, that ambulances of Syria’s Red Crescent entered Fua’a and Kafraya to evacuate five patients and 14 of their family members.