Damascus – At least 4,000 rebels and their families will be evacuated from the last opposition-held districts of Syria’s Aleppo, state television reported on Thursday.
“Four thousand rebels with their families will be evacuated from the eastern districts of Aleppo,” the television said in a breaking news alert.
“All the procedures for their evacuation are ready,” it added. Buses were waiting to carry out the evacuations under a new agreement reached after a first plan collapsed on Wednesday amid fresh fighting.
The deal, brokered by Syrian regime ally Moscow and opposition supporter Ankara, will mark the end of years of fighting for control of the second city and a major victory for President Bashar al-Assad.
The army began an offensive to recapture east Aleppo in mid-November, and now holds more than 90 percent of the onetime rebel bastion.
