Sunday, December 18

"East Aleppo evacuation underway: U.N. official"

December 18, 2016 - 5:15pm EST
Reuters

The evacuation of the rebel-held enclave of east Aleppo resumed late on Sunday night after three days of delays, a U.N. official in Syria told Reuters.

"Evacuations are on. Buses and ambulances are leaving east Aleppo now," the U.N. official said in an email message, adding that the first people left east Aleppo at around 11 p.m. (4 p.m. ET).

The official had no immediate information about a planned simultaneous operation to evacuate people from two Shi'ite villages [Fua'a and Kafraya] near Idlib that are besieged by mostly Sunni rebel forces.

Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Robin Pomeroy

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