The liberation of eastern Aleppo has been completed, according to the Russian Defense Ministry’s Center for Reconciliation. Syrian government forces are now tackling separate pockets of militant resistance.

“The operation by the Syrian Army aimed at liberating the militant-controlled neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo has been completed. The Syrian government forces continue to eliminate isolated pockets of militant resistance,” the Center for Reconciliation said in a statement.

All women and children have been evacuated from militant-controlled parts of eastern Aleppo, and only radicals now remain there, the Center confirmed earlier. The militants that remain have been firing at the Syrian forces.

“All women and children who were in militant-controlled districts have been evacuated.”

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