Nuns kidnapped by rebels in Syria freed
1,554 views · Published 9 March 2014 · 2:51 · Indexed 19 October 2026
Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2014 · News & Politics
A group of nuns held by rebels in Syria for more than three months have been released and are on their way to Damascus via Lebanon, according to a security source and church officials. Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh, reporting from the Lebanese-Syrian border crossing at Masnaa, said that there were not a lot of specifics to the deal yet as the swap was still on going.
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