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This Article is From Dec 18, 2016

Evacuation Buses Of Fighters And Families Start To Leave Aleppo: Report

Evacuation Buses Of Fighters And Families Start To Leave Aleppo: Report
Rebel fighters and civilians at a rebel-held sector of eastern Aleppo in Syria. (Reuters)
Beirut, Lebanon: A number of buses containing fighters from east Aleppo and their families have started to leave the last rebel-held sector of the Syrian city, Syrian state television, citing its correspondent in the city, said on Sunday.

Syrian state television reported on Sunday that a deal between the government and rebels to evacuate people from east Aleppo in return for the evacuation of people from al-Foua and Kefraya, two villages besieged by insurgents, had started to be implemented.

(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; editing by John Stonestreet)
© Thomson Reuters 2016


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