Assad says Aleppo's capture also 'victory' for Iranian and Russian allies

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday the regaining of full control of the northern city of Aleppo was a victory for his Russian and Iranian allies as much as his own country.

In comments after meeting a senior Iranian delegation, Assad also said the battlefield successes were a "basic step on the road to ending terrorism in the whole of Syrian territory and creating the right circumstances for a solution to end the war".

Russia's airforce conducted hundreds of raids that pulverised opposition-held parts of Aleppo while Iranian backed terrorists, led by Lebanese Hezbollah terrorists, poured thousands of fighters to fight oppositions along the city's main frontlines.

The last group of civilians and oppositions holed up in a small enclave is expected to leave in the next 24 hours, with the army and its allies seizing all of the city.