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Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
Syrian civilians leave a rebel-held neighbourhood of eastern Aleppo for government-held areas. A rebel official told AFP an agreement for the imminent evacuation of civilians and opposition fighters from east Aleppo has been reached.
Thousands of civilians in rebel-held Aleppo spent the night in freezing temperatures waiting for evacuations to resume after they were suspended for two days.
Hundreds of civilians and rebels arrive in rebel-controlled territory after leaving Aleppo under an evacuation deal that will allow Syria's regime to take full control of the city after years of fighting.
U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.