Another 60 Homs evacuees freed in Syria: governor
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Another 60 boys and men who were being held by Syria’s authorities after their evacuation from besieged Homs have been released, governor Talal Barazi told AFP Monday. The detainees, aged from 15 to 55 years, were among some 1,400 people evacuated from rebel-held districts in the heart of Syria’s third city after a year and a half under a choking army siege. The evacuation beginning February 7 was part of a UN-supervised humanitarian operation that also saw the delivery of some food supplies into the neighborhoods, where people have been surviving on herbs for months. read more