Daraya

Evacuation from Syria's Daraya begins

Rebels and civilians begin evacuating the Syrian town of Daraya after a four-year army siege.

Rebel fighters and civilians are to evacuate the besieged town of Daraya near the Syrian capital under an accord struck on Thursday,

Food aid convoy enters Syrian town for the first time since the start of a siege in 2012.

The northern commercial hub of Aleppo has been surrounded and cut off by rebel forces, with all but one road to the city blocked.

Nearly 450 people died Saturday on the bloodiest day of the savage civil war fought by Syrian Army troops and opposition forces.

The bodies of at least 79 victims of an execution-style slaughter were discovered Saturday in a town near Damascus.