Vehicles still leaving Aleppo after overnight evacuation: U.N. official in Syria

Vehicles were still streaming out of eastern Aleppo on Thursday morning under U.N. monitoring after an evacuation overnight, a United Nations official in Syria told Reuters on Thursday.

"The evacuation is still ongoing, monitors are still on site. About 300 private vehicles left overnight and this morning," the U.N. official said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared close to taking back control of Aleppo on Wednesday, but United Nations and rebel officials denied that an operation to evacuate fighters and civilians from the city had been completed.

(Reuters)