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Evacuations from besieged pro-regime Syria towns complete: monitor
BEIRUT, July 19, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – The last remaining residents on Thursday
departed two pro-regime towns in northwestern Syria long besieged by rebels
and a former Al-Qaeda affiliate, a monitor said.
Fuaa and Kafraya, in Idlib province, “were entirely empty of residents”
after some 6,900 pro-regime civilians and fighters left under a Russian and
Turkish-backed evacuation deal, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
BSS/AFP/MSY/1150 hrs