Ghada's five children cried out in terror when police broke into their run-down Istanbul flat at dawn and ordered the 36-year-old Syrian's family onto a bus, without saying why. The family of seven from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was among a group of refugees rounded up two weeks ago...

(Zaman Al Wasl- BBC)- Hundreds of fighters and civilians in three besieged parts of Syria have been evacuated under a truce deal brokered by the United Nations. Buses and ambulances ferried at least 120 Sunni rebels and civilians from Zabadani into nearby Lebanon. At the same time,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ambulances and buses on Monday entered the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Zadabadi to evacuate scores of fighters, among them injured, to Turkey under a U.N.-sponsored deal reached by the warring sides, rebel sources in the town told Reuters. The deal will allow rebel...

Besieged rebel fighters in a Syrian border town and families trapped in two Shi'ite towns in northern Syria are expected to be evacuated on Monday in the second stage of a rare, U.N.-backed deal between warring sides in Syria's war, sources close to negotiations said. The deal will allow...