About 3,000 terrorists evacuate Eastern Aleppo
(last modified Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:41:32 GMT )
Dec 19, 2016 13:41 UTC
  • About 3,000 terrorists evacuate Eastern Aleppo

A total of about 3,000 Takfiri terrorists and their families have been evacuated from the eastern part of the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo.

The militants along with their families were transferred from Aleppo’s eastern side in 40 buses to the city’s western half since the early hours of Monday.

Meanwhile, the so-called UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that an estimated 500 people had been taken out of the two besieged Shia Muslim villages of al-Fou'a and Kafarya in the neighboring Idlib Province.

Recently, Russia and Turkey reached a deal enabling the evacuation of thousands of trapped civilians and militants from Aleppo.

The process was, however, halted after the militants violated the ceasefire deal and blocked the transfer of civilians from al-Fou'a and Kefraya.

On Saturday, it was reported that the government and the militants were working on a new deal to resume evacuations from the villages as well as two towns near the Lebanese border.

The United Nations said on Sunday that the evacuations had resumed. The process, which was initially set to start earlier in the day, was postponed after the militants attacked and burned around 20 of the buses that had arrived to transport people out of the city.

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