Syrian rebels start leaving Damascus district under evacuation deal

Hundreds of Syrian rebels began leaving the besieged Damascus district of Barzeh on Monday as part of an evacuation deal with the government, state media and a war monitor reported.State television said fighters and their relatives had started departing Barzeh for rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitoring group, said buses had arrived in Barzeh at dawn and hundreds of fighters and family members had started to board them.