Syria’s ‘hard-won’ evacuation deal resumes after deadly bombing
Rashidin, Syria — The evacuation of civilians and fighters from besieged Syrian towns resumed on Wednesday after a weekend bombing at a transit point killed 126 people, 68 of them children, an AFP correspondent reported. Dozens of buses from the government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya, which have been under crippling siege for more than two years, reached the edge of the rebel-held transit point of Rashidin outside government-held second city Aleppo, the correspondent said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the hard-won evacuation deal was back under way. "The process has resumed with 3,000 people leaving Fuaa and Kafraya at dawn and nearly 300 leaving Zabadani and two other rebel-held areas," the head of the Britain-based monitoring group, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP. Rashidin was the scene of Saturday’s deadly bombing. At least 109 of the dead were evacuees. The rest were aid workers and rebels guarding the convoy. Dozens of wounded were taken to hospitals in nea...
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