FILE PHOTO - A view shows a convoy of buses carrying rebel fighters and their relatives from the besieged Damascus district of Barzeh, in this handout picture provided by SANA on May 8, 2017, Syria. SANA/Handout via REUTERS
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The last rebels and others who had agreed to leave the besieged Barzeh district of Damascus have done so, the Syrian capital's governor was quoted as saying on Monday by state television, bringing the entire area under state control.
Some 1,012 people, including 455 fighters, left Barzeh in a bus convoy for rebel-held parts of northern Syria as part of an agreement between the government and insurgents, state TV said.
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