19 October 2013
✍Azaz hostages freed
Syria#Syrian war
PartiesArmed Islamist groups (al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS, Assir…)Turkey
On 19 October 2013 the nine remaining Lebanese of the Azaz hostages were released after 17 months, in a Qatari–Turkish deal that included the release of two Turkish pilots kidnapped in Beirut in August 2013.