Syrian media: 2 besieged pro-government villages evacuated
19/7/2018 17:17
Syria's state-run media reported, over 7,000 people from two Syrian pro-government villages in the country's northwest that were besieged by the rebels for three years have been evacuated. The emptying-out of villages of Foua and Kfarya under a deal negotiated between government forces and the rebels over the past few months marks one of the largest population transfers in Syria's civil war. In exchange, the Syrian government is expected to release a number of detained insurgents. Al-Ikhbariya TV said all buses carrying residents of Foua and Kfarya had left the northern countryside of Idlib and that there were no more civilians there.
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