ISIS fighters win safe passage in deal with Syrian govt

According to a UK-based monitoring group, a deal with the Syrian government and ISIL supporters will see wounded fighters belonging to armed groups allowed to withdraw from the suburbs of Damascus.

The deal will see fighters, including those belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, allowed to leave the Yarmouk, al-Hajar al-Aswad and al-Qadam neighbourhoods of the Syrian capital.

The UK-based monitoring group also informs that wounded fighters belonging to armed groups will also be allowed as part of a deal with the Syrian government.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that buses to transport the fighters from the Damascus suburb of al-Qadam had already started arriving.

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They will be followed by family members of the groups’ supporters.
“Sources informed the SOHR about three possible destinations, which are Bir al-Qasab in Reef Dimashq, Homs countryside and Raqqa countryside,” a statement on Syrian Observatory’s website said.

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