Syria rebels depart eastern Ghouta town

Updated March 23 2018 - 7:04am, first published 7:00am
Syrian rebels and their families have left the eastern Ghouta town of Hasrata on government buses.
Syrian rebels and their families have left the eastern Ghouta town of Hasrata on government buses.

Syrian rebels have withdrawn in busloads from a town in eastern Ghouta and handed it over to the army, the first such surrender since one of the fiercest campaigns of the seven-year war began more than a month ago.

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