Syria's army on Tuesday urged the last remaining rebels and civilians to leave the bombed-out eastern quarters of Aleppo, a military source told AFP.
"The army is expected to enter (Aleppo) to clean the area after the fighters leave," the source said.
He said soldiers "issued a call over megaphones to the remaining fighters and civilians who want to leave, to exit the eastern districts."
Thousands of people have been evacuated from Syria's second city since a landmark deal -- brokered by Turkey and Russia -- was reached last week.
The agreement for civilians and rebels to quit the last sliver of opposition-controlled territory in the city paves the way for the government to declare full control over Aleppo.
Aleppo was once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, but it has been divided since 2012 between government forces in the west and rebel control in the east.
Government forces launched an offensive in mid-November to capture the whole city, and had seized more than 90% of the eastern half when the evacuation deal was struck.
Late on Monday, Turkey said 20,000 people had left the rebel-held pocket in the south of Aleppo in evacuations on Thursday and Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said 15,000 had gone.
Estimates of the number of people still waiting for evacuation on convoys of buses range from a few thousand to tens of thousands. The route out of Aleppo runs 5 km to the rebel-held district of al-Rashideen, just beyond the city's southwestern limit.
Civilians are also being evacuated from two mostly Shia Muslim villages near Idlib that have been besieged by rebels for years and taken to Aleppo as part of the deal that allowed the departure of insurgents from the city.
The Hezbollah military media unit reported that eight more buses of evacuees from al-Foua and Kefraya departed at dawn on Tuesday.
Syrians, who were evacuated from the last rebel-held pockets of Aleppo, arrive in the opposition-controlled Khan al-Assal region.
