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Deal reached that could restart Aleppo evacuation

An agreement was reached Saturday to allow "humanitarian cases" to leave two besieged government-held Shiite villages in northwestern Syria, a step that would allow the resumption of civilian and rebel evacuations from eastern Aleppo which were suspended a day earlier, Hezbollah's media arm and...

Latakia: Looting acts reported in Al-Assad Hospital

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The doctors and staff in al-Assad Hospital in coastal Latakia city are pursuing a policy of loot as hospital will be turned over to the regime Ministry of Defense in 2 January 2017 based on al-Assad’s decision issued in the last week of November. Social media pages and...

Dispute holds up evacuation from 'hell' of Aleppo

The evacuation of the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was suspended on Friday after pro-government militias demanded that wounded people should also be brought out of two Shi'ite villages being besieged by rebel fighters. The second day of the operation to take...

Aleppo evacuees tell of pain and dreams of returning

"It was the final time I saw Aleppo." Among a sea of sobbing men and hungry children Friday, Mohammad mourned his evacuation from his home town and Syria's second city. "It was catastrophic... I was kicked out of my homeland," the university professor told AFP in English at a staging ground...

Syrians rally in solidarity with east Aleppo

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of rebel-held areas throughout Syria went to streets on Friday, expressing solidarity with east Aleppo and condemning the brutal offensive that claims lives of hundreds of people. Demonstrations in many areas in Syria demanded military factions to unite and end the...

Dozens of Aleppo wounded ferried to Turkey

More than 50 wounded civilians from Aleppo, many in serious condition, have been transferred to Turkey for treatment, the Turkish Red Crescent said Friday. The transfers came as rebel areas of Syria's war-torn second city were being evacuated in a massive operation which began Thursday but...

Aleppo evacuation halted over Shiite villages

A military news service run by Lebanon's pro-Damascus Hezbollah group said the evacuation of eastern Aleppo had been halted Friday partly due to a failure to evacuate wounded people from two Shiite villages besieged by rebels in Idlib. It also cited previous reasons given for the suspension...

Ansar al-Sham merges with powerful Jaish al-Islam

(Zaman Al Wasl) - Battalion of “Ansar al-Sham, key rebel unit in the coastal Latakia province said Thursday it had merged with powerful Jaish al-Islam rebel group. The online statement said the new step come in solidarity with people and fighters in Aleppo, and a response to people’s calls to...

Red Cross evacuates 3,000 civilians from Aleppo

Some 3,000 civilians and more than 40 wounded people, including children, were evacuated from east Aleppo Thursday in two evacuations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement. "Many more" rotations of buses and ambulances would be needed in coming days, said...

Second round of evacuations from Aleppo completed

A second round of evacuations from Syria's eastern Aleppo was completed Thursday, a Turkish official said, as part of an effort that Turkey has said could see 100,000 people brought out of the city. No further information about the second round of evacuations was immediately available....

Pro-regime areas fed up army calls to volunteer

(Zaman Al Wasl)- It seems that bringing volunteers to the regime's newly-formed militia, the Fifth Corps, is still stumbling. Regime did not take a headquarter for it although more than 3 weeks have passed on the launch of the project whose members will take monthly salaries tripling those...