Withdrawal of rebels and civlians from Aleppo delayed as opposition claim ceasefire is broken

The pullout of Syrian rebels and civilians from their last holdout in the city of Aleppo has been delayed today, though the cause was not immediately known.

The withdrawal was expected to start early in the morning, hours after the remaining rebel factions reached a ceasefire deal to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in what is effectively a surrender of the city’s few remaining opposition-run neighbourhoods to government control - and a defining moment in Syria’s civil war.