Bana Alabed, the seven-year-old girl who has been tweeting about life amid the devastation of eastern Aleppo, has been safely evacuated from the city.
President of the Syrian American Medical Society Ahmad Tarakji tweeted a picture of Bana, showing her safe and well.
The tweet said: ".@AlabedBana and many children arrived to #Aleppo countryside. @sams_usa @UOSSM and partners arr coordinating the response plan there."
Bana's account went silent a few weeks ago as the Syrian regime bombarded rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
The messages from the account, which she shares with her mother Fatemah, had gotten increasingly desperate, detailing how their home was destroyed and they narrowly escaped death.
The account, with some 100,000 followers, then disappeared. Searches for Bana's twitter handle turned up a "Sorry, that page doesn't exist" message.
In one message she wrote: "Tonight we have no house, it's bombed & I got in rubble. I saw deaths and I almost died - Bana #Aleppo."
Another said: "My friends this is not the moon, the is bomb falling now. Please pray for us tonight. I am afraid. - Bana #Aleppo."
Her tweets had given an insight into the terrifying struggle of people in Aleppo as they endured bombs, airstrikes and ground battles.
Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated from the city to rebel-held areas of the countryside west of the city.
It is part of a ceasefire agreed after a renewed regime offensive in Aleppo all but wiped out the rebels' influence there. (Sky News)
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