Syria Conflict: Rebels leave Eastern Ghouta under Russia-brokered deal
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In Syria, rebels are beginning to leave Eastern Ghouta, under a Russia-brokered evacuation deal announced a day earlier. State media is reporting nearly 550 people -- 88 of them fighters -- have left the battered opposition enclave outside Damascus. Rebels and accompanying civilians were seen boarding buses from the town of Harasta, and waiting in a buffer zone to cross over into government-controlled territory. In total, around fifteen hundred fighters and thousands of family members are expected to leave. The Syrian army has retaken 80 percent of the last opposition bastion outside the capital, dividing the rest into three isolated pockets, each held by different rebel groups.