Daesh terrorists begin evacuating Syria-Lebanon border zone

The Daesh Takfiri terrorists and their supporters have begun to evacuate Syria's strategic and mountainous region of Qalamoun close to the border with Lebanon, and head towards eastern part of the country as part of a negotiated deal to end the extremists’ presence there.

Lebanese and Syrian media reported that an unidentified number of terrorists and their supporters headed in buses toward the Daesh-controlled city of al-Bukamal, which lies on the Euphrates River in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr and near the border with Iraq.

Syria’s privately-owned and pro-government al-Ikhbariya al-Soriyah television news network reported that there were about 250 Daesh terrorists in the transfer.

The media bureau of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement said ambulances ferried 25 wounded Daesh Takfiris from the area.

On Sunday, the Syrian government agreed to a deal between Hezbollah and Daesh, which allows the transfer of Takfiri terrorists from Qalamoun to eastern Syria.

On August 19, Hezbollah and the Syrian army launched an operation to purge Daesh from Qalamoun, located about 330 km  north of the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Hezbollah launched a major push on July 21 to clear both sides of Lebanon's border with Syria of “armed terrorists.”

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