Evacuations pick up pace in Aleppo and rebel-held villages![]() December 19, 2016 - 15:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Evacuations of areas under siege in northern Syria are picking up pace, with people in some rebel-held zones now being allowed to leave, BBC News said. Evacuation of the last rebel enclaves in eastern Aleppo surrounded by Syrian forces restarted late on Sunday, December 18. Among those to have left is seven-year-old Bana Alabed, who had tweeted about conditions in the city. A linked evacuation of government-held parts of Idlib province being besieged by rebels started early on Monday. While civilians are being moved to safety in Syria, the UN Security Council is to discuss sending monitors to oversee the mass evacuations. There are hopes that countries divided on Syria's fate will come to a rare agreement on the crisis. Azerbaijani authorities report that they have already resettled 3,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Stepanakert. On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. Partner news |