Good news! The question is, though, was a deal cut to free Jihadists in order to secure freedom for the nuns?

Via France 24:

About a dozen nuns held in Syria for more than three months have been released and are on their way to the capital Damascus via neighbouring Lebanon, a Lebanese security source said on Sunday.

The nuns had been transferred to the Lebanese town of Arsal earlier in the week, the source said, and were now on their way back to Syria.

The nuns went missing in December after Islamist fighters took the ancient quarter of the Christian town of Maaloula, north of Damascus.

After being held in the Greek Orthodox monastery of Mar Thecla in Maaloula, they were reportedly moved to the town of Yabroud, about 20 km (13 miles) to the north, which is now the focus of a government military operation.

It was unclear exactly who had held the nuns and why they had been released.

In December, the nuns showed up in a video obtained by Al Jazeera television, saying they were in good health, but it was not clear who filmed the video, where it was made or under what conditions.

Syria’s Christian community has broadly tried to stay on the sidelines of the country’s three-year-old-conflict, which has killed over 140,000 and displaced millions.

But the rise of hardline Islamists among the overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim opposition has alarmed many, as the fighting in Syria has become increasingly sectarian.