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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Al-Lino: 120 Want to Leave Ain el-Hilweh under Hizbullah-Nusra Deal
2017-08-01
[An Nahar] Twenty-seven Lebanese nationals are among 120 people who have registered their names to leave the Ein el-Hellhole Paleostinian refugee camp for Syria’s Idlib as part of a deal reached between Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
and the jihadist al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front group, a top Fatah Movement official has said.

"Until now, no official authorization has been given for the exit of any runaway from the Ein el-Hellhole camp," Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Issa, aka al-Lino, added in a TV interview.

He noted that the Lebanese side has rejected the transfer to Idlib of any runaway involved in terrorist acts in Leb.

The Hizbullah-Nusra agreement got underway on Sunday with the exchange of bodies of fighters between the two groups and an exchange of captives is expected at a later stage.

The agreement follows several days of fighting in the outskirts of the Lebanese border town of Arsal and the Syrian town of Flita that saw Hizbullah seize control of much of the region.

The battles ended with a ceasefire Thursday to allow negotiations to proceed to send the Nusra fighters -- who are now encircled in a small pocket of territory -- and their families to Syria's northwest Idlib province, Nusra’s Syria bastion.

Posted by:Fred

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