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Final evacuees leave eastern Aleppo as Assad regime takes control
Source: The Guardian
Final evacuees leave eastern Aleppo as Assad regime takes control
Last few thousand fighters and civilians transported from city
held by rebels for more than four years in Syrian civil war
Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul and Patrick Wintour in London
Thursday 22 December 2016 19.00 GMT
The evacuation of east Aleppo has been completed, bringing to a close a key chapter in the Syrian rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad.
About 4,000 rebel fighters and civilians left the city on Thursday, the last group remaining in the shrunken patch of territory still nominally held by the opposition in the city.
The Syrian army said it had retaken Aleppo entirely and brought “security and safety” back to the city.
The last evacuations bring the total number of people who have left east Aleppo in the last week to a little over 40,000. Their departure came about under a deal brokered by Turkey and Russia that teetered on the edge of collapse several times.
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Last few thousand fighters and civilians transported from city
held by rebels for more than four years in Syrian civil war
Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul and Patrick Wintour in London
Thursday 22 December 2016 19.00 GMT
The evacuation of east Aleppo has been completed, bringing to a close a key chapter in the Syrian rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad.
About 4,000 rebel fighters and civilians left the city on Thursday, the last group remaining in the shrunken patch of territory still nominally held by the opposition in the city.
The Syrian army said it had retaken Aleppo entirely and brought “security and safety” back to the city.
The last evacuations bring the total number of people who have left east Aleppo in the last week to a little over 40,000. Their departure came about under a deal brokered by Turkey and Russia that teetered on the edge of collapse several times.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/22/final-evacuees-leave-eastern-aleppo-as-assad-regime-takes-control