Evacuation started from Syria’s Daraya

Fighters in the Damascus suburb of Daraya began to leave with their families and other residents under an evacuation deal on Friday, effectively surrendering the town to the government after a gruelling four-year siege.

Peeping from the window of one of the vehicles was a small child no older than four or five, too young to remember life before the siege.
Only one shipment of aid has reached the area since the Syrian army surrounded the town in 2012, the UN says.

Syrian state television reported that all the buses that left on Friday had arrived at a housing centre in Herjalleh, a suburb west of Damascus.

A Syrian Army general told reporters in Daraya that about 300 families of fighters would leave the town on Friday, and in total about 700 fighters and 4,000 civilians would be evacuated by Saturday. Fighters who did not want to make peace with the Syrian government would be transferred to Idlib, he said.