Some 400 Militants, Family Members Leave Eastern Aleppo
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A group of 382 militants and their family members have left the eastern part of Syrian city of Aleppo late on Sunday, according to a source in militia.
"A group of militants with their families, 382 people, has left eastern Aleppo," the source told RIA Novosti on Monday.
On Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Aleppo was now under full government control with the Syrian army operation to retake the eastern districts completed. Civilians and militants were leaving the city amid a ceasefire agreement between the remaining pockets of resistance and government forces.
Reports on Sunday said the Syrian government had demanded the evacuation of over a thousand residents from the besieged towns of Fuah and Kafarya in exchange for evacuating the militants still in Aleppo.
Fuah and Kafarya are the only government-held enclave in Idlib's vast militant-held area. The towns of some 20,000 people have been under siege since 2013. The humanitarian situation remains dire, with a lack of food and basic necessities.
