About a dozen of busses carrying residents and rebels from the Damascus suburb of Daraya left the area on Saturday , under previously agreed evacuation deal effectively surrendering the town to the government after a gruelling four-year siege.
Footage on state television showed buses carefully driving past a large group of soldiers through streets lined with rubble.
Two Free Syria Army rebel groups from Daraya, the Shuhada al-Islam and Ajnad al-Sham, would travel to Idlib, a rebel stronghold in northwest Syria, rebel factions in the south said in an emailed statement.
Insurgents and government forces agreed a deal on Thursday to evacuate the suburb, which the Syrian army has surrounded since 2012.
Daraya is just 7 km from President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power, and was one of the first places to see peaceful protests against his rule.
The suburb fought off repeated attempts to retake it by government forces as the conflict escalated into civil war.
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