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Besieged residents and rebels began leaving the Damascus suburb of Daraya on Friday, in an evacuation to end one of the longest stand-offs in Syria's five-year civil war. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Rami Adham, a Finnish-Syrian Aid worker smuggles nearly 1000 toys into Syria every few months in an attempt to brighten the lives of the children of Aleppo.
Omar and his wife Salha fled Kobane in Syria when the town was seized by Islamic State. They have now returned because as they say: There is no place like home.
Five years after the start of the Syrian civil war, Aleppo has opened its first boxing club. Amid battles between ISIS, rebel forces and Syrian regime, the children of the city are learning to punch their way out of the war.
Millions of Muslim pilgrims have congregated outside Mecca, many of them praying for an end to the wars in the Middle East, as the annual haj reaches its climax. Mana Rabiee reports.
Parachutes containing humanitarian aid fall from the sky after an airdrop in Rafah. On Saturday, the United States carried out its first operation to drop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, which the UN says is under threat of famine as the war between Israel and Hamas continues. IMAGES