Daraya

Jets believed to be Syrian planes hit the besieged Al-Waer neighbourhood in the city of Homs on Sunday, a day after the evacuation of residents and fighters from rebel-held Daraya on the outskirts of the capital, residents and a monitor said.

Besieged residents and rebels began leaving the Damascus suburb of Daraya today, Reuters witnesses said, as an evacuation to end one of the longest stand-offs in Syria's five-year war began.

An international aid convoy reached Daraya - a Syrian town under siege by government forces - in the middle of the night, delivering food supplies for the first time since 2012, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday.

A truce has been introduced in the Syrian town of Daraya from today for 48 hours to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid to the population, said the head of the Russian coordination centre in Syria.

Several hundred bodies have been found in a town near Damascus after a ferocious assault by the Syrian army, a watchdog said Sunday, as activists accused government forces of a gruesome "massacre". A grisly video issued by opposition militants showed bodies piled up wall-to-wall in a mosque complex in Daraya after a massive offensive by troops bat...

Jets believed to be Syrian planes hit the besieged Al-Waer neighbourhood in the city of Homs on Sunday, a day after the evacuation of residents and fighters from rebel-held Daraya on the outskirts of the capital, residents and a monitor said.

Besieged residents and rebels began leaving the Damascus suburb of Daraya today, Reuters witnesses said, as an evacuation to end one of the longest stand-offs in Syria's five-year war began.

An international aid convoy reached Daraya - a Syrian town under siege by government forces - in the middle of the night, delivering food supplies for the first time since 2012, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday.

A truce has been introduced in the Syrian town of Daraya from today for 48 hours to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid to the population, said the head of the Russian coordination centre in Syria.

Several hundred bodies have been found in a town near Damascus after a ferocious assault by the Syrian army, a watchdog said Sunday, as activists accused government forces of a gruesome "massacre". A grisly video issued by opposition militants showed bodies piled up wall-to-wall in a mosque complex in Daraya after a massive offensive by troops bat...