Syrian Government Forces Fully Liberated Eastern Aleppo
MEP: The Syrian government forces have successfully captured full control of eastern Aleppo three weeks after having launched a major offensive to liberate it from the terror groups.
In this matter, Aleppo streets have erupted in celebrations with people waving flags and shooting in the air.
Since 2012, eastern Aleppo and surrounding areas had been held by extremists groups including the al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra Front, ISIS or Daesh, Ahrar al-Sham, Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki, Islamic Front, Al-Tawhid brigades and others.
Over 3,500 civilians left the city on Monday as the Syrian Army and the security services have already arranged all the necessary conditions for their transportation to temporarily equipped refugee camps in Jibreen, the representative told RIA Novosti.
Earlier, Ahmad Saleh, leader of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Ba’ath Party in Aleppo, stated in an interview to Sputnik that “Aleppo is free from terrorists,” noting that although some militants are still battling government forces in the Salaheddin neighborhood, they are “surrounded and will surrender soon.”
In the three week long combat operations to liberate eastern Aleppo, the Syrian government forces were joined on the ground by the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Syrian Palestinian resistance group Liwa Al-Quds.
About 1400 militants are reported to have surrendered following the liberation of most of eastern Aleppo, In accordance with a presidential amnesty issued in October that offered surrendering rebels of Syrian nationality and their families’ evacuation to safe areas, close to 1300 have been granted amnesty.
