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A Lebanese Shiite woman, whose husband was among 11 Lebanese Shiites kidnapped in Syria, reacts as she visits Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, early Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Syrian rebels abducted the 11 men and a Syrian driver while they were on their way home from a religious pilgrimage in Iran. As the news of the Tuesday's kidnappings in Syria spread, residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Shiite area, took to the streets and burned tires and blocked roads in protest. Image Credit: AP

Syrian rebels released on Friday Lebanese hostages kidnapped in northern Syria, an Islamist cleric who brokered their release said. 

"Thanks to God their transfer is complete..they have been handed to the Turkish authorities," a statement from Shaikh Ebrahim Al Zoaby said. 

Final stages

Beirut Lebanese hostages kidnapped in Syria will be set free "within hours", an Islamist cleric who is brokering their release said on Friday. 

"The process is in its final stages, they will be released within hours God willing," Shaikh Ebrahim Al Zoaby told Reuters.  

 

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Lebanese security forces supervise the opening of a street blocked by Shiite Muslims in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 22, 2012, to protest against Syrian rebels kidnapped of 12 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in the Syrian northern province of Aleppo. The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group Shaikh Hassan Nasrallah has appealed for calm following the abduction of 12 Lebanese Shiites in Syria. Image Credit: AP
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