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Some 1,300 People, Including 436 Militants, Leave Syria's Homs

© AFP 2023 / MAHMOUD TAHAOpposition fighters and their families gather as they prepare to board a bus, ahead of their evacuation from the rebel-held Waer neighbourhood in the central city of Homs on March 18, 2017
Opposition fighters and their families gather as they prepare to board a bus, ahead of their evacuation from the rebel-held Waer neighbourhood in the central city of Homs on March 18, 2017 - Sputnik International
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A total of 1,276 people, including 436 militants, left the al-Waer neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday under an agreement with the authorities on a local truce, an informed source in the country's security services told Sputnik.

DAMASCUS (Sputnik) —  The source said that 387 women and about 460 children left al-Waer in addition to members of the armed opposition, adding that the militants who left the city took weapons with them — more than 50 assault rifles, five sniper rifles and 24 handguns.

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On March 13, Syrian authorities and militant groups in Homs reached an agreement with Russian mediation as the guarantor. In accordance with the agreement, militants and their families agreed to leave Homs stage by stage, while Syrian government troops guarantied safe passage for them.

On March 18, over 1,400 militants and members of their families left al-Waer toward the Jarablus city to the north of the Aleppo province in compliance with the agreement.

The civil war in Syria has been lasting for around six years with government troops fighting against numerous opposition factions and terror organizations such as al-Nusra Front and Daesh, outlawed in Russia.

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