Now-fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced $200million would be added to Syria recovery funds in a meeting with regional leaders in Kuwait in February
The fighters were evacuated after the Civilian Committee of Douma reached a partial deal with the Russian and Syrian governments, by which the wounded in Douma, the last rebel-held enclave in Eastern Ghouta, would be evacuated, activist Bilal Abu Salah said.
Before the last wave of violence began in eastern Ghouta last month, the United Nations had estimated that some 393,000 people were living in the area under a tight government siege.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump called for the spending freeze after reading a news report that said the U.S. had committed the funds for recovery efforts in Syria, which has been wracked by a more than seven-year civil war.
(Photo: AP/PTI) Two Syrian kids who were wounded during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, sit at a makeshift hospital, in Ghouta, suburb of Damascus, Syria.
Many had suffered weeks of heavy bombardment with hundreds of civilians said to have been killed.
A civilian committee taking part in the negotiations with Russian Federation on Saturday said a deal had been reached "to evacuate humanitarian cases to northern Syria".
Last week, a rebel rocket attack on the capital killed 44 civilians.
The Syrian government says it opens fire in response to shelling from Eastern Ghouta, but Western countries are accusing the Syrian government and Russian Federation of being responsible for the intensification of tensions in the area.
Defence analysts say a major goal of the campaign was to complete a security belt around the capital, where for years rebels dug into an elaborate network of tunnels and well- fortified positions had resisted countless offensives to seize the enclave.
Gunmen In Military, Police Uniforms Kill Six In Kaduna
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday, March 29, 2018, rejected Governor Nasir El-Rufai's $350 million loan request for Kaduna State. . The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Shehu Sani said the $232 million was accrued from loans obtained by the state from 1960.
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Two jawans and 12 militants killed in south Kashmir encounters
Some of the militants downed are said to be high ranking cadres and their killing may have hit the organization badly. J&K police chief and 15 Corps commander are addressing the presser in the afternoon.
"Negotiations were continuing for a full agreement, including concerning the Jaish al-Islam" rebel faction, said the head of the Britain-based monitor.
Mohammed Abu Adel, leader of the Manbij Military Council, a US -backed Arab-Kurdish group in Manbij, told the Associated Press that the bomb went off just before midnight on Thursday, hundreds of meters from a security headquarters that houses the council.
State TV said 38 buses left the towns of Zamalka, Ein Tarma, Arbeen and Jobar taking more than 1,700 rebels and civilians to the northwestern rebel-held province of Idlib.
A council member of the opposition-controlled town however said that all that had been agreed was that "humanitarian cases" would be allowed to evacuate on Monday.
The Syrian army last week warned the insurgents to surrender or face a military assault to drive them out.
State television said a "number of terrorists from Faylaq al-Rahman" had started to leave Douma on Sunday, using its usual term for rebels.
The president's advisers have convinced him to stay for now to prevent the Islamic State from reemerging and to lay the groundwork for a potential peace agreement that would be beneficial to the United States, according to people familiar with the discussions, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive military discussions.
Friday's death of a USA service member marks the first American killed in Syria this year and the second American combat-related death this year.
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