A human rights monitor says the evacuation of fighters and civilians is under say in three Syrian towns after a U.N.-backed humanitarian deal was reached between the government and rebels.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says more than 100 fighters in Zabadani, the last rebel bastion on Syria's border with Lebanon, are headed to Lebanon and Turkey before they will be returned to other parts of Syria. The monitor says more than 300 civilians and fighters are leaving the villages of Foua and Kfarya.
Elsewhere in Syria, authorities say several people were killed and many others wound in twin bombings in the central city of Homs. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
More than 250,000 people have died in the Syrian conflict, which has forced more than 4 million others to flee the country since it began in 2011.