AnNahar] Two severely maimed Salafist tough guys were rushed out of a flashpoint rebel bastion in Syria to Leb on Sunday as part of a truce in flashpoint areas, a monitor said."The United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
transferred two Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
fighters at death's door from Zabadani to Leb," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Warring parties in Syria, including Leb's Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
, agreed Thursday to the six-month truce in Zabadani, the last rebel stronghold along Syria's border with Leb, as well as the Shiite Moslem villages of Fuaa and Kafraya in the northwestern province of Idlib.
The ceasefire is to include the evacuation of civilians and rebel fighters out of Zabadani in exchange for the safe passage of civilians from Fuaa and Kafraya.
But there were delays when protesters in rebel-held territory in Idlib province blocked roads, preventing the planned evacuation by the Red Islamic Thingy from getting under way.
A member of Zabadani's local council told AFP the "two maimed people were evacuated as an exception because of their critical condition."
He said they were being taken to Beirut.
According to Abdel Rahman, the full evacuations are expected to begin on Monday.
| Here's hoping more than today's two actually get out. |