The evacuation of the remaining rebels from Syria's northern city of Aleppo will start soon, the Syrian army said on Thursday.
Up to 16,000 civilians have fled strife-torn parts of eastern Aleppo as the rebels lost all of the northern neighbourhoods of their stronghold, the UN said Tuesday, describing the situation as "chilling".
The Syrian army and its allies announced the capture of a large swath of eastern Aleppo from rebels on Monday in an accelerating attack that threatens to crush the opposition in its most important urban stronghold.
Syrian government forces have gained control of the northern section of the rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo city in northern Syria, a monitor group reported on Monday.
All hospitals in Syria's besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy air strikes, its health directorate and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said, though a war monitor said some were still functioning.
The battles' heat is scorching Syria's northern city of Aleppo with the prospects so dim as a result of the widening gap between the conflicting parties as well as the ideas for defusing the tension.
A new batch of civilians and rebels evacuated rebel-held areas in the eastern part of the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, state-run al-Ekhabaria TV said.
At least 70 people have been killed in rain-related incidents such as lightning, flooding and drowning in India over the past few days, as heavy rains lashed northern and eastern parts of the country, said officials and police Saturday.
The leaders of Russia and Ukraine discussed with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French President preparations to hold elections in an eastern Ukrainian area hit by a pro-Russian insurrection, according to the german government.
The pro-independence insurgents in eastern Ukraine said Wednesday that they are ready to hold local elections under the Ukrainian law in their region if certain conditions were met.
The Ukrainian-American command post exercises code-named "Fearless Guardian-2015" kicked off in the western Ukrainian region of Lvov on Monday, the country's Defense Ministry said.
Top leaders of Russia, Germany and Ukraine have agreed on the monitor mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in eastern Ukraine, said the Kremlin on Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to use his upcoming summit with leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine to seek an end to the crisis in eastern Ukraine.
The Libyan branch of the Islamic State (IS) on Thursday claimed to have executed two Tunisian journalists who disappeared for months.
At least 25 Syrian soldiers were killed and dozens of others wounded Wednesday in clashes with extremist groups in the east suburb of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group reported Thursday.
At least 3,660 people have been killed and 8,756 wounded in the violent fighting in eastern Ukraine since mid-April, according to an United Nations report reaching here on Wednesday.
The Syrian troops on Monday dislodged the rebels from a strategic area in the eastern countryside of the capital Damascus, the official SANA news agency reported.
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