更多敘反叛武裝棄守大馬士革附近地區

At least 1,500 Syrian rebels and their families abandoned another long-held district just outside of Damascus on Sunday, as the army of President Bashar al-Assad and its allies push to seize full control of the capital and surrounding areas for the first time in nearly five years.

State media and witnesses said the evacuation began at dawn, less than a day after government forces captured the Qaboun district, and just days after hundreds of other beleaguered rebel fighters and their families departed two other nearby districts.

A government deal facilitating the Qaboun evacuation was announced late Saturday. It replicates earlier agreements under which rebels were granted safe passage to rebel-held territory near the Turkish border in exchange for an end to weeks of shelling and airstrikes by Syrian and allied Russian warplanes.

Government forces have pressed for several months to recapture rebel districts north and east of Damascus, and analysts say they succeeded only after discovering and destroying underground tunnels that connected the three neighborhoods.

As civil war raged near the capital, Kurdish-led Syrian forces far to the north pressed a separate offensive against Islamic State extremists just outside the de facto IS capital, Raqqa.隨着敘利亞總統阿薩德的軍隊及其盟軍5年來首度推進並奪取對首都及其周邊地區的完全控制，至少1500名敘利亞反叛武裝人員及其家人，星期天放棄了另外一個大馬士革郊外長期佔據的地區。

敘利亞國營媒體和目擊者說，撤離行動黎明時分開始。此前不到一天，政府軍奪取了加邦地區。幾天前，成百上千被圍困的反叛武裝戰鬥人員及其家人撤離了另外兩個鄰近地區。

一項與政府達成的協議促成了加邦地區的撤離行動，該協議是星期六晚間宣佈的。這份協議複製了以前協議的條款，反叛武裝可經由安全通道撤往他們在靠近土耳其邊界的控制區，作爲交換，結束歷時數星期的炮擊以及敘利亞和俄羅斯戰機的空襲行動。

數月來，敘利亞政府軍一直髮動攻勢，以奪回大馬士革以北和以東方向反叛武裝佔據的地區。分析人士說，他們發現並摧毀了連接三個地區的地下通道後，戰況纔開始獲得成功。

在首都附近激烈內戰之際，庫爾德人領導的敘利亞武裝在北部伊斯蘭國所稱的首都拉卡城外，也發動了打擊伊斯蘭國極端分子的攻勢。