BEIRUT: Buses carrying several hundred fighters and civilians left two besieged areas on Monday for Turkish and Lebanese border crossings under a U.N.-backed deal by warring parties, aid workers and sources familiar with the deal said.
At least 130, mostly wounded, rebel fighters left the border town of Zabadani for the Lebanese border at the same time as about 350 fighters and civilians from pro-government besieged Shi'ite towns in northwestern Syria, who headed for a Turkish border crossing.
Reuters
