The first buses carrying local residents and rebel fighters left the Damascus suburb of Daraya on Friday under a deal that will see the area evacuated after a four-year siege by government forces.

Turkish forces will remain in Syria for as long as it takes to cleanse the border of ISIS and other militants, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday, after a truck bombing by Kurdish militia killed at least 11 police officers.

“Israel is unable to defeat Gaza despite its military supremacy,” Al-Resalah newspaper reported the head of Hamas’ political bureau saying yesterday.

More than 50 people have been killed and scores more wounded in a suicide attack at a wedding ceremony in Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep, near the Syria border.

Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Sunday, shortly after a rocket was fired into southern Israel.

Nearly 18,000 people died in government custody in Syria in 2011-15, an Amnesty International report says, alleging beatings and rape in prisons.

The serial of insulting the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, is not going to be over; in the recent case, a popular actor and producer in Iran insulted Talha, Zobair and Abu-Mousa Ash’ari in a comedy show.

Hundreds of civilians have been killed in both Syrian government and rebel attacks across the war-torn country in recent days, according to local activist groups.

Khairullah was a young boy when he rushed with his parents towards Peshawar, over the border in Pakistan.

Russia’s military has announced a three-hour daily halt in air strikes on Syria’s Aleppo to allow humanitarian convoys in after rebels broke a government-imposed siege of the ravaged city.