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CNN: Aleppo evacuations – from one war zone to another

By CNN.

Published Dec. 15, 2016 at 7:55 pm

A wounded Syrian woman from the al-Sukari neighbourhood is helped onto the back of a truck as she flees during the ongoing government forces military operation to retake remaining rebel-held areas in the northern embattled city of Aleppo on Dec. 14, 2016. Shelling and air strikes sent terrified residents running through the streets of Aleppo as a deal to evacuate rebel districts of the city was in danger of falling apart.

Photo by AFP

Evacuations began for hundreds of civilians and rebels from Syria’s eastern Aleppo on Dec. 15, but for many, fleeing their homes means leaving one war zone for another.

Most of the civilians will be taken to rebel-controlled area in the neighboring province of Idlib, one of the few remaining footholds rebel groups still have in the country – and most likely the regime’s next target for recapture. Rebel fighters were also being allowed to move there.