1,000 leave rebel Aleppo in new evacuation: Report

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that at least 1,000 people on 10 buses had left the besieged Shi`ite Muslim villages of al-Foua and Kefraya,

Beirut: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Monday that at least 1,000 people on 10 buses had left the besieged Shi`ite Muslim villages of al-Foua and Kefraya near Idlib carrying evacuees through rebel-held territory towards Aleppo.

The evacuation of wounded and other civilians from the villages is a condition for the evacuation of people in the besieged rebel zone of Aleppo, Syrian state media reported on Sunday.