n injured Syrian man from Aleppo waits on a stretcher as he is being transported from the Syrian side of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing to a hospital in Turkey on December 16, 2016. The Syrian government suspended the evacuation of the last rebel-held pa
ALEPPO, Syria: The stalled evacuation of east Aleppo will resume once injured people are let out of the besieged Shi’ite villages of al-Foua and Kefraya in Idlib province, a Syrian official said on Friday.
“If the evacuation of the injured in Kefraya and al-Foua takes place, the operation to evacuate eastern Aleppo will resume immediately,” the official said.
The evacuation of the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was suspended on Friday after pro-government militias demanded that wounded people should also be brought out of the two villages being besieged by rebel fighters.
(Reporting by Laila Bassam in Aleppo,; writing by Lisa Barrington)
