Convoy to leave Syria's Raqa under evacuation deal: coalition

A convoy will leave Syria's Raqa on Saturday under an evacuation deal, the US-led coalition said, as a US-backed force battles to seize the Islamic State group's last positions there. The coalition said the deal reached by local officials aimed to avoid civilian casualties and would exclude foreign IS fighters, but made no mention of whether Syrian jihadists would be able to leave. "The arrangement is designed to minimise civilian casualties and purportedly excludes foreign Daesh terrorists as people trapped in the city continue to flee the impending fall of Daesh's so-called capital," the coalition said, using the Arabic acronym for IS.

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