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Shiite militias occupy east Aleppo: activists

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists voiced concern over Iran and it's Shiite militias practices as Iran's flag and many sectarian banners have been occupying the collapsed eastern Aleppo, saying Iran is deepening the rift with the Syrian people. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that no Syrian flag and...

Last 3,000 await final buses out of Aleppo

(Sky News)- Just 3,000 people are believed to be preparing to be evacuated from the last rebel-held area in eastern Aleppo. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 60 buses would pick up the remaining 3,000 fighters and their families. At least 25,000 people have been...

Syrian regime closes in on last Aleppo rebels

As President Bashar al-Assad's army closed in on the last rebel enclave in Aleppo on Tuesday, Russia, Iran and Turkey said they were ready to help broker a Syrian peace deal. The Syrian army used loudspeakers to broadcast warnings to insurgents that it was poised to enter their rapidly...

Syria regime tells remaining rebels to quit Aleppo

Syrian regime army on Tuesday urged the last remaining rebels and civilians to leave the besieged opposition enclave in Aleppo as it prepares to take full control of the devastated city. The evacuation of Aleppo's rebel sector is seen as a pivotal moment in the nearly six-year war that...

Syrian regime says it will enter Aleppo enclave

Syria's army broadcast messages into the last rebel enclave of Aleppo saying it would enter the area on Tuesday, a military media unit run by the government's ally Hezbollah reported, urging insurgents to speed up their evacuation of the city. A rebel official based in Turkey told Reuters...

Red Cross: 25,000 evacuated from Aleppo so far

At least 25,000 people have left the bombed-out eastern districts of Aleppo since evacuations began last week, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday. "Yesterday (Monday) only, we evacuated 15,000 people from east Aleppo. If we consider those evacuated on Thursday...

Thousands leave Aleppo as UN plans new peace talks

Thousands of traumatized Syrians left the rebel enclave of Aleppo Monday as the UN voted to deploy observers there and said it planned new peace talks in Geneva in February. "It is the intention of the United Nations to convene those negotiations in Geneva on 8 February 2017," UN envoy...

Kurd-led forces press Islamic State near Raqqa

Several villages held by Islamic State have been captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of militias backed by the United States that includes a strong Kurdish contingent, an organisation that monitors the war said on Monday. The advance is part of a military campaign...

Some 20,000 now evacuated from east Aleppo

Some 20,000 people have been evacuated from Syria's east Aleppo so far and efforts continue to bring more people out, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday. Cavusoglu had said earlier on Monday that 12,000 people had been evacuated. Dozens of buses carrying thousands...

Syria evacuations postponed until further notice

The evacuations expected Sunday of fighters and civilians from east Aleppo and two Shiite villages under rebel siege in northwestern Syria have been postponed until further notice, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the move was decided after gunmen attacked buses...