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Last batch of militants leave Waer district in Syria’s Homs

Sunday, 21 May 2017 1:48 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 21 May 2017 1:48 AM ]

Russian troops (L) stand guard as Syrian opposition fighters and their families board a bus at a checkpoint manned by Syrian forces ahead of their evacuation from Waer neighbourhood, the last opposition-held district in the central city of Homs, on May 20, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Mohammad Ali
Press TV, Homs

The last batch of foreign-backed militants in Waer quarter of Homs has started leaving the Syrian city as part of an evacuation deal with the government. By the end of the process, Homs will be a militant-free city for the first time since the Syrian crisis began in 20-11. Our correspondent Mohamad Ali was at the exit point and filed this report.

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