(REUTERS) – Convoys of evacuees travelled from a rebel-held area of Aleppo and two Shiite villages besieged by insurgents on Monday, a war monitor and rebels said, as a deal enabling evacuations held after a tense, days-long stand-off and before a UN vote.
About 10 buses left the Shiite Muslim villages of al-Foua and Kefraya, north of Idlib, towards the government lines in Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, reported.
The evacuation of civilians, including wounded people, from the two villages which have been besieged by rebels for years, is a condition for the Syrian army and its allies to allow thousands of fighters and civilians trapped in Aleppo to depart.
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