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Troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad expanded their offensive in the south-west of the country to a neighboring province a few days after concluding an evacuation agreement with the rebels in the province of Daraa [19659002]bombed a rebel-held village in Quneitra – an area adjoining the Golan Heights occupied by the Israelis – while they sought to recapture a strip of land straddling the provinces of Deraa and Quneitra, still in the hands rebels.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom, said that fighter jets belonging to the Russian Air Force have survived the village of Mashara, located 11 km from the Golan border.
Hezbollah-linked al-Mayadeen television reported that pro-government troops were advancing in the high Tel Mashara area.
Earlier in the day, rebel fighters and family members began evacuating the city of Deraa on buses that would take them to opposition-controlled areas in northern Syria
]. 500 fighters boarded 15 buses and he was one of those leaving.
The rebels left the district of Deraa al-Balad that they had been controlling for years until the surrender last week. Under the agreement, the fighters surrendered weapons and those who did not want to live under the state regime were transferred.
A rebel fighter, Abdullah Masalmah, told Reuters that he "did not trust the Russians nor the regime". "I can not forget the thousands who have been killed by the regime, let alone the orphans, the wounded and the detainees," he said.
The buses were parked on a main artery linking the north with its rebel-held south, were searched by Russian forces before leaving just after noon for the Idlib province.
The Syrian public television broadcast images of white buses carrying fighters, their blue curtains drawn, surrounded by military forces
Deraa recaptured
The Syrian government, supported by the Russian army, captured most of Deraa
The city of Deraa was the scene of the first major peaceful demonstrations against the authoritarian regime of President Assad in March 2011.
A group of teenagers scribbled anti-government slogans government on the walls of a school, giving the shot of sending unarmed popular protests across the country. However, Assad's brutal response resulted in a full-fledged war against world powers supporting various armed groups.
About half a million people were killed with 11 million more displaced in more than seven years of conflict. The SANA news agency said Sunday that the rebels had handed heavy weapons to the Syrian army, showing images of armored vehicles and artillery that had been collected
. The Ghouta region was resumed in a bloody air and air assault in which more than 1,400 people were killed.
He now holds 80% of the province of Deraa, but parts of his western campaign and the neighboring province of Quneitra escape his control.
Some 160,000 people displaced by the government's offensive on Deraa are still trapped in Quneitra.
On Sunday, government forces fired hundreds of missiles as part of the province's first attack in more than a year. The United States and Jordan have agreed on a ceasefire for some parts of the south, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
while the Red Crescent Syrian Arab announced Sunday a convoy of humanitarian aid. 19659004] Nine trucks carrying 3,000 food parcels arrived in the cities of Nassib and Um al-Mayathen in the province of Deraa, near a border crossing with Jordan.
The convoy was accompanied by a UN humanitarian delegation to Syria. -Zaatari, and representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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