when the violence in syria rises again , the rebillions sease to control the yelen neighborhood

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BEIRUT—Hundreds of rebels and their families began evacuating the opposition’s last redoubt in the Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, as regime and Russian warplanes pummeled Aleppo to the north in what antigovernment activists called the heaviest bombardment in months.

 The Homs evacuation came after more than three years of siege by regime forces, during which humanitarian aid agencies were routinely barred from delivering food and medical supplies.

 Some 300 rebels and their family members in Homs’s Waer neighborhood relented to what opponents of President Bashar al-Assad have termed his government’s “starve-or-submit” tactics.
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The opposition says the evacuation of rebel-held areas in deals with the regime makes it harder to revive a cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia that collapsed this week. It has also said that the evacuation of Waer would lead to rebel leaders rejecting the truce.

 The Syrian government declared the truce over Monday evening, but the U.S. insists it can be revived, and on Wednesday called for all aircraft in northern Syria to be grounded.

 In an interview with the Associated Press on Thursday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad blasted the U.S. for violating the truce, further diminishing hopes for resuscitating it.

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