UN team brokers swap between Syrian regime, opposition

23 May 2012 /AP

A United Nations team in Syria says it has brokered an exchange between forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and opposition fighters seeking to topple his regime.

The UN said in a statement Tuesday that government forces released two detainees from the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northwest Syria in exchange for permission to retrieve a destroyed tank.

Video posted online showed members of the UN team interacting with both sides and a large trailer removing a charred tank from the town.

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