The United Nations, France and Russia announced that an agreement was reached on a compromise UN resolution to deploy UN monitors to eastern Aleppo to ensure safe evacuation and immediate delivery of humanitarian aid. Buses containing some 350 people were able to leave a rebel-held pocket late on Sunday even though officially evacuations were postponed. This comes as earlier on Sunday, armed men set fire to at least five buses that were about to transport the sick and injured from the villages. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that some of the buses that had arrived to Fouaa and Kefraya came under attack and were burned. Meanwhile France has reached a compromise with Russia on a UN resolution that it says will prevent mass atrocities in besieged areas of Aleppo where thousands of trapped civilians and rebel fighters await evacuation in freezing temperature.
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