Mass exodus underway from Aleppo as Syrian forces make big gains
Source: Deutsche Welle
Syrian forces have made significant advances in Aleppo as rebels lost most of its territory in the city's east. The accelerating attack by government's troops has forced thousands of people to flee the area.
In a major victory over Syrian rebels in the war-battered city of Aleppo, government troops took control of all the northern neighborhoods in the east of the city.
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"The rebels have lost at least 30 percent of the territory they once controlled in Aleppo," Rami Abdel Rahman, chief of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Monday.
The regime gains have prompted an exodus of thousands of people. The Observatory said that nearly 10,000 civilians had fled east Aleppo overnight Saturday - at least 6,000 to the Kurdish-controlled northern district of Sheikh Maksoud, with the rest fleeing to government-held areas.
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I hope that the battle of Aleppo concludes very soon and that housing, medicine, utilities and educational services are quickly restored to the eastern parts of the city.
