A Syrian boy makes his way through the rubble of destroyed buildings as he heads to his house in Aleppo's Dahret Awad neighbourhood on December 17, 2016, after pro-government forces retook the area from rebel fighters. / AFP / Youssef KARWASHAN
BEIRUT: 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)
