<p>Buses arrived in Tahrir al-Sham-controlled areas of Lebanon’s Arsal, on August 2 to carry thousands of fighters and their families to opposition areas in northern Syria, under ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, according to Hezbollah-affiliated media</a>.</p><p>Tahrir al-Sham released three Hezbollah fighters from its prisons as part of the deal, the same source said and Hezbollah also received five bodies of its fighters from Tahrir al-Sham on Sunday, part of the deal’s first stage, Syrian state media SANA</a> said. The completion of the second stage, the evacuations, was delayed in order to allow more buses to arrive.</p><p>Hezbollah and the Syrian army launched a wide-scale operation against Tahrir al-Sham in the Arsal area on July 21. A ceasefire took effect last Thursday. Credit: Step News Agency via Storyful</p><br />
