MOADAMIYEH, Syria — About 340 Syrians were taken by bus out of a rebel-held suburb of the capital, Damascus, on Friday under a deal struck with the government that seeks to end a punishing 3-year siege, allows rebel fighters to leave, and restores state control over the area.

The suburb of Moadamiyeh is the latest opposition pocket to relent after residents could no longer take the suffering under sieges by Syria’s military, with food supplies dwindling and key infrastructure like hospitals being destroyed.

A nearby suburb, Daraya, surrendered and came under government control last week.

The accelerating pace of such surrenders points to the success of the military’s tactic of sieges, even as it has brought international criticism and complaints from the United Nations over the difficulty of getting humanitarian aid to besieged residents.

In Moadamiyeh, security forces searched the luggage of dozens of men, women, and children before they boarded buses Friday, heading to shelters in a government-controlled neighborhood nearby.

Moadamiyeh, which a UN report said was gassed with toxic sarin in 2013, has suffered a three-year government siege, leaving its estimated 28,000 residents with dwind­ling food and medical supplies.

The first part of the deal’s implementation removed about 340 people, including 62 gunmen who agreed to lay down their arms after taking advantage of a presidential amnesty, said the governor of Rural Damascus province, Alaa Munir Ibrahim.

Aside from the gunmen, the evacuees are all residents of the nearby suburb of Daraya who had been trapped in Moad­amiyeh when the military launched a major offensive on Daraya earlier this year.

The rebel gunmen in Moadamiyeh who refuse to hand over their weapons will leave, probably to rebel-held parts of northern Syria. The rest of the population will remain.

It was not clear when government security forces would take over control of the suburb.

Also Friday, Turkish forces fired tear gas and water cannons across the border at some 400 protesters in the Syrian town of Kobani, who were demonstrating against a barrier wall being built by Turkey.

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