People walk with their belongings as they flee the rebel-held town of Hammouriyeh, in the village of Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta, Syria March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

ASTANA (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that more than 12,000 people left Syria’s rebel-held eastern Ghouta on Thursday.

He also said that any threat from the United States to strike the Syrian capital Damascus would be unacceptable.