ALEPPO UPDATES: Over 500 East Aleppo Militants Surrender Arms to Syrian Security Forces
21st Century Wire,
29 November, 216
The momentum has shifted in Aleppo this week as the Syrian Army begin to advance, steadily driving out Western and Gulf-backed terrorist fighters under the command of Al Nusra Front – from their occupied enclaves in Eastern Aleppo. 21WIRE will post continuous ALEPPO UPDATES as we receive information…
The
Russian criticism comes as the Russian-run Syria Reconciliation
Center reported that over 500 fighters in Aleppo chose to surrender
to the advancing Syrian Army.
“Over
the past 24 hours, 507 fighters chose to leave the city districts
that remain under terrorist control to the safe areas and surrender
their weapons. In accordance with the Syrian president’s offer, 484
militants, who are local residents, have been immediately
pardoned,”the
report said.
This
week, Damascus intensified its siege of eastern Aleppo, a city that
for years was split between government troops and militant forces.
The Syrian Army has captured the north-eastern part of the city.
The
operation also put a strain on the ability of armed groups to prevent
civilians from fleeing areas under their control. Previously, some of
the groups controlling eastern Aleppo, like the Al-Qaeda
off-shoot Al-Nusra
Front, used
deadly force to
stop civilians trying to escape.
The
military success of Damascus in Aleppo come as US Secretary of
State John
Kerry is
engaged in a last-ditch effort to convince Russia to stop the
operation, according to a Washington Post column. The diplomat
reportedly wants to keep rebels in control of part of the city before
President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January and withdraws
Washington support from the militants.
Earlier reports from
Monday also confirmed:
Syrian government forces liberate about 40% of east Aleppo from terrorists, according to Syrian Reconciliation Center….
More
than 3,000 civilians have left the eastern part of the besieged
Syrian city of Aleppo in the last 24 hours, the Russian Center for
Reconciliation said. It later reported that about 40 percent of the
militant-held part of the city has been liberated.
Some
3,179 people, including 1,519 children – among them 138 newborn
babies – have left Eastern Aleppo through the ‘humanitarian
corridors’ set
up by Syrian government forces, Russian Reconciliation Center said on
Monday.
The
center reported that 12 neighborhoods, comprising roughly 40 percent
of the territory previously controlled by the militants, have been
cleared.
According
to the Russian Center for Reconciliation, more than 80,000 people
live in the newly liberated areas of the eastern part of the city. It
added that more than 5,000 people fled from the southern districts of
eastern Aleppo, which are still controlled by the militants, to the
areas held by government forces.
Earlier
on Monday, the center reported that to date 10 neighborhoods and more
than 3,000 buildings have been cleared
of Al-Nusra Front militants.
The militants have also been pushed out of al-Qadisiyah, a key Aleppo
district.
All
civilians are being cared for in aid camps where they receive medical
treatment, food and sanitation.
The
center said it deployed additional 150 field kitchens to distribute
hot meals among civilians fleeing the embattled city…
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