Images show a convoy of cars carrying Syrian Kurds evacuating the Aleppo region to Kurdish-held safe areas further east following an onslaught by Ankara-backed groups that seized the towns where they were living. The attack by the Turkish-backed groups came days after the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and allied factions launched a lightning offensive from northwestern Syria near the Turkish border, wresting swathes of territory from government control, including Syria's second city Aleppo. IMAGES