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Six hundred people – mostly women, children and the elderly – have been evacuated from the Syrian city of Homs, according to non-governmental organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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They were brought out by humanitarian assistance teams on Sunday despite mortar attacks and shooting.<\/span>
More civilians may be rescued as rebels and the Bashar al-Assad government have extended the ceasefire for another three days.<\/span>
The evacuation of about 600 of the 3,000 trapped people came as representatives from both sides converged on Geneva, Switzerland, for new peace talks.<\/span>
Sunday’s evacuation was the second after 83 people were brought out on Friday – the first day of the truce.<\/span>
The Syrian Red Crescent said on Facebook “around 600 people evacuated today, registration is still ongoing. We managed to get 60 food parcels & 1500Kg of flour inside old city”.<\/span>
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 611 were brought out – “210 women, 180 children, 91 men over 55 years old and 130 young men who surrendered to Syrian authorities under UN supervision”.<\/span>
It said the men “will be released soon”.<\/span>
Television footage showed women, children and elderly men getting off the evacuation buses.<\/span>
They appeared visibly exhausted and frail, in a video broadcast by the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV channel.<\/span>
Homs, much of which has been reduced to rubble, was dubbed “the capital of the revolution” by activists before an offensive in 2012 by regime forces recaptured much of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trading blame<\/strong><\/span>
The civilians evacuated from Homs on Sunday were aided by UN staff and Syrian Red Crescent volunteers amid a strong Syrian army presence.<\/span>
State television said the operation took place under fire from “armed terrorist groups” – regime terminology for rebels.<\/span>
But the Syrian Observatory echoed claims by activists that at least five people were killed in shelling that targeted the besieged Homs district of Qarabis.<\/span>
Activists accused pro-government fighters in neighbourhoods bordering the besieged districts who opposed the truce, of firing the mortar rounds.<\/span>
Shelling also targeted a Homs aid convoy on Saturday in an attack that killed five residents and wounded 20 others, the Syrian Observatory said.<\/span>
Elsewhere in Syria, at least 25 members of Assad’s Alawite sect were killed by fighters in the Maan area of Hama province, the Syrian Observatory said on Sunday.<\/span>
It said most of the dead were pro-regime fighters, but state television reported a “massacre” of 10 women.<\/span>
And in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in southern Damascus, besieged since last June, a man and a woman died of malnutrition, it said.<\/span>
Since the blockade began, up to 80 people have died because of food and medical shortages, the Syrian Observatory estimates.<\/span>
In yet another development, a group of nuns from the historic Christian-majority Syrian town of Maaloula have appeared in a video aired by Al Jazeera.<\/span>
The women are reportedly 12 nuns from a Greek Orthodox convent of Mar Takla in Maaloula who were seized by armed men in early December.<\/span>
The video was recorded on February 5.<\/span>
On the diplomatic front, the government delegation and members of the opposition National Coalition arrived for the second round of Geneva II, sources close to the delegations told AFP news agency.<\/span>
Walid Muallem, the Syrian foreign minister, again heads the government delegation.<\/span>
It was not yet clear if Ahmed al-Jarba, the National Coalition head, will be in the opposition delegation.<\/span>
Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League envoy, is scheduled to hold separate sessions on Monday, with the opposition in the morning and the regime delegation in the afternoon.<\/span>
It will then be decided whether to hold a joint session on Tuesday or not, an AFP journalist said.<\/span>
The warring sides seem far from compromise, however.<\/span>
While the regime insists that the talks focus on fighting “terrorism”, the opposition demands the priority be agreement on a transition that excludes Assad.<\/span>
The nearly three-year civil conflict in Syria has killed about 136,000 people and displaced millions more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Al Jazeera<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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