3,600 fighters and their families leave Douma in 24 hours

Dozens of buses headed to opposition-held north-western Syria on Tuesday carrying opposition fighters who agreed to surrender the town they controlled near Damascus after it was hit by a chemical attack.

Sixty-seven buses carrying hundreds of fighters, along with family members and other civilians who did not wish to come back under Assad's rule, reached opposition areas near Aleppo on Tuesday.

Russia's Defense Ministry said that 3,600 militants and their families had left Douma over the past 24 hours.