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DAMASCUS, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) --A seven-year-old girl who has garnered plenty of worldwide attention tweeting in English about the ongoing war in Syria has been evacuated from Aleppo and is said to be en route to Turkey.
"I escaped from East #Aleppo," Bana Alabed tweeted on Tuesday, confirming news announced earlier by the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a Turkish charity organization.
Pictures of smiling Alabed with an aid worker were published by the IHH twitter account on Monday morning.
On the account created by her mother Fatemah, Alabed has been tweeting details of life in the war-torn Aleppo using photos, videos and periscopes, winning the focus of the world with replies from politicians and celebrities.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday said that Bana and her family would be brought to Turkey.
Fatemah on Sunday posted a tweet begging Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Cavusoglu to "make the ceasefire work and get us out."
She also has appealed to the U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to help her family escape war.
A United Nations resolution adopted on Monday called for the evacutations in Aleppo to be monitored.
Reports said that nearly 15,000 people, including rebels, have evacuated eastern Aleppo since the operation started last Thursday.
The rebels captured eastern Aleppo in 2012, and the government forces and allied fighters have recently captured 99 percent of the region, as part of a wide-scale offensive to completely drive out the militants from the city.
With the last evacuation of the rebels from eastern Aleppo, the Syrian army will be on control of the entire city, a victory seen as a new chapter in the ongoing war, according to President Bashar al-Assad.
