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Added on the 10/03/2018 07:42:00 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Hundreds of fighters evacuated by the Syrian regime from their Eastern Ghouta bastion arrived in rebel-held Idlib province on Friday, a monitor said.
The buses in the first convoy of rebels and civilians evacuated late Thursday from the Eastern Ghouta arrive in the town of Qalaat al-Madiq, in the north of Hama province, before making their way north to Idlib province. IMAGES
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Conflict in Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin's daily five-hour truce in Eastern Ghouta looks to have already broken down with the UN reporting that fighting has continued in the region. Both sides are holding the other responsible, with Russia's military on Tuesday outright accusing rebels of shelling residential areas in Damascus. After the sieges of Homs and Aleppo, another grim endgame unfolds in a civil war marked by staggering brutality.
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.