Syria handed over on Sunday the bodies of three Lebanese who were fighting along with the armed Syrian insurgents in Syria

Syria handed over on Sunday the bodies of three Lebanese who were fighting along with the armed Syrian insurgents in Syria.

The men were identified as Malek Ziyad al-Haj Deeb, Khodr Mustafa Alameddine and Abdul-Hamid Ali Agha.

Syrian security officials handed the bodies to a Lebanese delegation that included representatives of Dar al-Fatwa as well as General Security in the presence of three Lebanese Red Cross ambulances on the Arida border crossing, north Lebanon.

The ambulances transferred the bodies of the men to their relatives for burial.

A group of Salafist fighters from Tripoli were killed on Nov. 31in a Syrian army ambush in the town of Tal Kalakh, which lies near the Lebanese border.

The remaining bodies of the Lebanese militants would be returned in several stages for logistical reasons.