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CNN: Turkey and Russia consider evacuations from besieged Syrian area

By CNN.

Published Dec. 25, 2017 at 9:29 am

A Syrian boy pushes a bicycle down a street amidst the destruction following reported shelling by Syrian government forces, in the rebel-held town of Douma in Syria's eastern Ghouta region, on November 17, 2017.Shelling by the Syrian regime on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, which has been besieged since 2013 and where humanitarian conditions are dire, killed at least 10 civilians, among them six children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The deaths were the result of the latest bout in an escalating cycle of tit-for-tat attacks between regime forces and the rebels holding the enclave on the Syrian capital's eastern outskirts. / AFP PHOTO / Hamza Al-Ajweh

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As the Syrian government maintains its stranglehold on a besieged Damascus suburb, allies in Russia and adversaries in Turkey are considering plans to evacuate hundreds of civilians caught in a growing humanitarian crisis.

Moscow and Ankara are discussing the relocation of hundreds of people from Eastern Ghouta, Turkey’s President said, according to Russian and Turkish news reports.