Exclusive - Syria Call:

The Syrian National Army on Monday carried out a new prisoner exchange with the Assad regime in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, for the third time.

"The National Army and the Assad regime conducted a prisoner exchange at the "Abu Zindeen" near the city of Al-Bab, under Turkish and Russian auspices supervised by a delegation from the United Nations," the correspondent of "Syria Call" reported.

The correspondent said that the exchange resulted in the release of 9 detainees from the prisons of the Syrian regime, including a woman in exchange for the same number of prisons of the National Army, adding that this process will be followed by new exchanges during the coming period.

The exchange was the third of its kind. A similar operation took place last November, which included the release of 10 prisoners from each of the prisons. Last February, an exchange also took place which resulted in the release of 20 detainees from each side.

It should be noted that the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced in a statement after the second exchange that it took place under the auspices of the Working Group on Detainees resulting from the Astana talks, stressing that the group will continue its activities in the coming period to release more detainees and reveal the fate of the missing.