isis militants begin evacuating lebanon border area
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ISIS militants begin evacuating Lebanon border area

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An army-organized press tour photo shows Lebanese soldiers in an area they took from ISIS in Jurud Ras Baalbek
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ISIS militants began evacuating a Syrian-Lebanese border region Monday under an unprecedented deal to end three years of their presence there, Syrian state television and Hezbollah said.

The evacuation comes a week into a Lebanese army campaign against the group on the Lebanese side of the border, coinciding with a joint Syrian army and Hezbollah offensive on neighboring Syrian territory.

Under the evacuation deal, several hundred militants and their families on both sides of the border are set to leave by bus for Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, the country’s only province still under ISIS control.

Also read: Lebanon finds remains believed to be of soldiers kidnapped by ISIS

Early Monday evening, Hezbollah and Syrian state television said that “buses transporting IS fighters have left the (Syrian) region of Qara, in western Qalamun, and are heading for the town of Albu Kamal in Deir Ezzor”.

Hezbollah said “hundreds of ISIS fighters” had left the border area of eastern Lebanon, but this was not confirmed by the Lebanese army. “The objectives (of the operation) have been achieved,” Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech broadcast live on the party’s Al-Manar television channel.

“ISIS was expelled from Lebanese territory... the border was secured and the western Qalamun (on the Syrian side) was liberated” from the militants,” he said. Nasrallah said the battle had cost Hezbollah 11 fighters and the Syrian army seven soldiers. Lebanon’s army has said it lost six soldiers.

Earlier, a Lebanese army source told AFP that no convoys would leave the area until DNA tests had been carried out on bodies found in the region at the weekend, believed to be the remains of eight Lebanese soldiers IS kidnapped in 2014. The Lebanese army launched an offensive against ISIS in the mountainous Jurud Arsal and Jurud Ras Baalbek border regions on August 19.

It said Tuesday it had seized most of the territory formerly held by the militants. At the same time, Hezbollah mounted a parallel offensive to dislodge IS from the Syrian side of the frontier.

The Lebanese army and Hezbollah announced a ceasefire on both sides of the border after reaching the evacuation deal over the weekend. On Monday, dozens of Lebanese soldiers were seen manning positions on a string of hilltops in Jurud Ras Baalbek.

Also read: Syrian regime backs evacuation deal for ISIS at Lebanon border

Most appeared relaxed, leaning on armored personnel carriers and waving to journalists embedded with Lebanese troops. Others manned vehicle-mounted heavy machineguns and looked out over the arid territory they had seized in the nine-day fight.

Smoke could be seen rising behind hilltops along the border. Lebanese army General Fadi Daoud said the area had been secured, but that there was still a danger of mines laid by the militants. “Daesh is done, but we may still find caves with bombs in them,” he said.

“There are caves and small rooms in the area. If a soldier doesn’t go into each room, clear it, and mark it as safe, then we can’t say that we’re done.” The war ravaging Syria has overflowed into Lebanon on several occasions.

source: Alarabiya

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