Morning Star.png Syrian Troops Re-Enter Darayya James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 27 August 2016 Syrian troops re-entered the Damascus town of Darayya yesterday after four years of extremist occupation. The government struck a deal with Martyrs of Islam Brigade on Thursday to allow its 700 gunmen and their families to evacuate the town on the outskirts of the capital, leaving behind their heavy weapons. Dozens of Red Cross workers arrived to supervise the militants' departure in cars and on buses to north-western Idlib province, in the grip of the Levant Conquest Front - al-Qaida's recently rebranded Syrian branch. Jubilant Syrian troops waved their guns in the air, chanted slogans and took photographs in the liberated town. A similar deal was recently struck in neighbouring Moadhimiyah after the army's 4th Division cut the road linking the two. The group, well supplied with US-made TOW anti-tank missiles despite the supposed siege of Darayya, seized control in 2012 at the start of the West's proxy war on Syria. The truce frees up some 2,500 much-needed troops to tip the balance on other fronts, such as in the nearby Army of Islam stronghold of Ghouta where the Republican Guard has been advancing in recent weeks. Lavrov and Kerry Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with his US counterpart John Kerry in Geneva on Syria and other issues, with UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura attending later in the day. During a break the tight-lipped Russian described progress as "excellent." Mr Kerry had in recent weeks hinted that the two countries could reach agreement on defeating al-Qaida. [email protected] From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-ffda-Syrian-troops-re-enter-Darayya#.V8 ESdPl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14026 (20160826) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/005401d2002f%2417420030%2445c60090%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
