Syrian rebels and their families left Eastern Ghouta Thursday under a Russian-brokered evacuation deal that is the first for the shrinking opposition enclave outside Damascus. They were bussed out in direction of the northwestern province of Idlib, after hours of waiting in a buffer...

Syrian rebels freed 13 soldiers in return for the release of five rebels on Thursday, the first step of a deal over Harasta town in Eastern Ghouta, a Hezbollah War Media Center. Around 1,500 Ahrar al-Sham fighters and 6,000 family members will evacuate the town on Thursday, said the...

Large numbers of Syrian civilians were leaving the rebel-held eastern Ghouta town of Douma early on Thursday, a war monitor said, and a Russian video feed showed groups bearing children and luggage crossing into government territory. Some 1,500 people left early on Thursday and 2,000 late...

A Russian-brokered deal has been reached to evacuate a Syrian rebel group from a town in Eastern Ghouta to opposition-held northwestern Syria in the first such deal in the last remaining rebel bastion near the capital, two opposition sources said on Wednesday. Fighters from the Ahrar...