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The exchange took place through the Abu al-Zindin crossing in the countryside of al-Bab city, east Aleppo, where each party handed five prisoners to the other party.
The armed bandidos bully boyz of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army handed each Milad Ashor, Hani al-Youssef, Amar al-Abdullah, Mortada Mahfouz, and Youssef Hamdan over to government forces, a security source from the government forces who requested anonymity said.
The prisoners included officers, two of which have been prisoners for more than four years, he added.
The same source denied the authenticity of what was reported by government-backed security sources regarding the release of 37 prisoners from the opposition in return for their five members, adding, "the government aims to raise the morale of their members and to show itself as caring about them and not leaving them in captivity."
Social media websites of pro-Syrian National Army individuals published the names of those who the Syrian government released, including Hussein Issa, Hussein al-His, Muhammad Diya’ Boulad, Mahmud al-Rifa’i, and Ahmed Shamiya.
The prisoner exchange followed negotiations between the government and military commander of the Mutasim Brigade, Farouq Abu Bakr, the government security source added.
The source pointed out that Muhammad Diya’ Boulad, who was released by the government, is a cousin of Saif Abu Bakr, an official in the Hamza Division, and Hussein Issa, who was also released by the government, is a nephew of an official in Sultan Murad Division. 
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