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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.
Hundreds of fighters evacuated by the Syrian regime from their Eastern Ghouta bastion arrived in rebel-held Idlib province on Friday, a monitor said.
Convoys carrying opposition fighters out of the last rebel pockets of Aleppo leave in the final phase of an evacuation clearing the way for Syria's army to retake the city.
Residents of two Shiite-majority villages were evacuated to regime-held Jibrin, in Aleppo province. The government had suspended the evacuation of rebel-held Aleppo for two days, insisting the two villages be evacuated.
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.