AGROUP of 21 UN peacekeepers captured by Syrian rebels three days ago has been taken to the border with Jordan and was being handed over to Jordanian authorities, a rebel source and a violence-monitoring group said yesterday.
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights said the Filipino monitors, captured by the Martyrs of Yarmouk brigade on Wednesday, were taken to the border area. A brief truce was agreed and, although that two-hour window passed before they could be extracted, the rebels said relative calm had prevailed.
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