About a dozen nuns held in Syria by rebels for more than 3 months have been finally freed, according to reports citing Lebanese state media on Sunday.
Thirteen nuns and three workers, who were kidnapped from the Christian town of Maaloula in Syria in December, are on their way to Damascus via Lebanon reports said.
The sources also reported that the nuns had been earlier shifted to the Lebanese town of Arsal.
The nuns had been missing after Islamist fighters took the Christian town of Maaloula north of Damascus in December. According to reports, the kidnappers were from a group belonging to the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front led by a man called Abu Malek al-Kuwaiti.
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