Inside Story

Abandoning Aleppo: Evacuation of rebel-held areas

Buses take fighters and their families out of eastern Aleppo under a fragile ceasefire.

It is an evacuation that effectively ends a four-year battle for what was Syria’s financial centre and largest city before the civil war erupted.

Thousands of rebels, their family members and other civilians are being moved out of the last opposition-held areas of eastern Aleppo.

What happens to them now?

Presenter: Sami Zeidan

Guests:

Marwan Kabalan – Syrian political analyst at the Doha Institute

Nour Hallak – field coordinator with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Idlib province

Dr Annie Sparrow – deputy director of human rights programme at Mount Sinai in New York

Ralph el Hage – representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Amman, Jordan