What's left of rebel territory in Syria

[FarCenter]

BEIRUT (AFP) -
Syria's rebels have been pushed back to a handful of areas, mainly in the country's northwest, parts of Aleppo province, the towns surrounding Damascus and two southern provinces.

Hundreds of civilians and rebels left east Aleppo on Thursday after an evacuation deal handing control of the city to regime forces.

Apart from significant territory held by the Islamic State jihadist group, which has declared the city of Raqa its capital, that leaves rebels and allied Islamist groups in control of just 15 percent of Syrian territory, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Some 100,000 rebels are fighting across Syria, according to the Institute for the Study of War.

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