A Turkish charity has said that thousands of mostly Syrian
prisoners were exchanged Wednesday for a few dozen Iranian in Damascus. The
deputy president of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation in Turkey, Huseyin Oruc,
said the Syrian government let go of 2,130 civilians, 76 of them were women, in
exchange for the release of 48 Iranians who had been held by Syrian rebels.
FARS, Iran’s semi-official news agency, reported that Wednesday
released that Iranians had been “abducted by terrorists’ in Syria in August.
The exchange was taken place after a speech that was delivered Sunday, by
al-Assad. He vowed to continue to push back against the rebels. By late Wednesday all the freed civilians were
returned to their homes. The swap was the result of three months of negations.
A car bomb exploded in Damascus suburb of Modamieyah on
Wednesday. There were reports of deaths and injuries by an activist group. Rebels
battled for a key Syrian air base continuing the fighting in Taftanaz. The weather
has also appeared to have halted some military operations.
This is kind of a continuing blog from one of my earlier blogs.
It seems that the violence that has occurred ion Syria may have one good thing
happen but still doesn’t seem like there has been getting better there. The plans
from that blog, from these articles, may have not been carried out yet? I guess
I wouldn’t practically find out if they have been attempted from this article
but violence is still occurring and nothing much has seemed to have happened.
WC 257
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/09/world/meast/syria-prisoner-exchange/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
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